[R] RMySQL - Bulk loading data and creating FK links

[Nathan S. Watson-Haigh]

I have a table (contact) with several fields and it's PK is an auto 
increment field. I'm bulk loading data to this table from files which if 
successful will be about 3.5million rows (approx 16000 rows per file). 
However, I have a linking table (an_contact) to resolve a m:m 
relationship between the an and contact tables. How can I retrieve the 
PK's for the data bulk loaded into contact so I can insert the relevant 
data into an_contact.

I currently load the data into contact using:
dbWriteTable(con, "contact", dat, append=TRUE, row.names=FALSE)

But I then need to get all the PK's which this dbWriteTable() appended 
to the contact table so I can load the data into my an_contact link 
table. I don't want to issue a separate INSERT query for each row in dat 
and then use MySQLs LAST_INSERT_ID() function....not when I have 
3.5million rows to insert!

Any pointers welcome,
Nathan

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