I'm sharing an elegant solution I found on the web (Vadim Passynkov):
CREATE RULE get_pkey_on_insert AS ON INSERT TO Customers DO SELECT currval('customers_customers_id_seq') AS id;
Every time you insert to the Customers table, postgreSQL will return a table with the id you just inserted. No need to worry about concurrency, the ressource is locked when the rule gets executed.
Note that in cases of multiple inserts:
INSERT INTO C1 ( ... ) ( SELECT * FROM C2);
we would return the id of the last inserted row.
For more info about PostgreSQL rules:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/sql-createrule.html