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Having the “last insert identifier” available, a RETURNING clause is added to When SQLAlchemy issues a single INSERT statement, to fulfill the contract of Table ( 'sometable', metadata, Column ( 'id', Integer, Sequence ( 'some_id_seq' ), primary_key = True ) )
