I want to UPDATE or INSERT a column in PostgreSQL instead of doing INSERT or UPDATE using INSERT ... ON CONFLICT ... because there will be more updates than more inserts and also I have an auto incrementing id column that's defined using SERIAL so it increments the id column everytime it tries to INSERT or UPDATE and that's not what I want, I want the id column to increase only if it's an INSERT so that all ids would be in an order instead
The table is created like this
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS table_name (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
user_id varchar(30) NOT NULL,
item_name varchar(50) NOT NULL,
code_uses bigint NOT NULL,
UNIQUE(user_id, item_name)
)
And the query I used was
INSERT INTO table_name
VALUES (DEFAULT, 'some_random_id', 'some_random_name', 1)
ON CONFLICT (user_id, item_name)
DO UPDATE SET code_uses = table_name.code_uses + 1;
Thanks :)
Upserts in PostgreSQL do exactly what you described.
Consider this table and records
CREATE TABLE t (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, txt TEXT);
INSERT INTO t (txt) VALUES ('foo'),('bar');
SELECT * FROM t ORDER BY id;
id | txt
----+-----
1 | foo
2 | bar
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Using upserts the id will only increment if a new record is inserted
INSERT INTO t VALUES (1,'foo updated'),(3,'new record')
ON CONFLICT (id) DO UPDATE SET txt = EXCLUDED.txt;
SELECT * FROM t ORDER BY id;
id | txt
----+-------------
1 | foo updated
2 | bar
3 | new record
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EDIT (see coments): this is the expected behaviour of a serial column, since they're nothing but a fancy way to use sequences. Long story short: using upserts the gaps will be inevitable. If you're worried the value might become too big, use bigserial instead and let PostgreSQL do its job.
Related thread: serial in postgres is being increased even though I added on conflict do nothing
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I am using PGsql and transferred some data from another database into my new one. The table has records starting at PK 200. The tables primary key (bigint - autoincrementing) is currently starting at 0. If I continue to insert records, eventually it will reach 200. My question is, will these records create an issue when trying to insert record 200? or will PGsql know the conflict, then find the next available AI index (say 234)?
Thanks! If it will cause a conflict, how can I set the current index of my table to the last index of data? (like 234).
My question is, will these records create an issue when trying to insert record 200?
Assuming that you have a serial column or the-like: yes, this will create an issue. The serial has no knowledge that some sequences are not available, sp this will result in a duplicate key error. Meanwhile the sequence increments also on such errors, and the next call will return the next number, and so on.
This is easily reproducible:
create table t (id serial primary key, val text);
insert into t (id, val) values (2, 'blocker');
-- 1 rows affected
insert into t (val) values ('foo');
-- 1 rows affected
insert into t (val) values ('bar');
-- ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "t_pkey"
-- DETAIL: Key (id)=(2) already exists.
insert into t (val) values ('baz');
-- 1 rows affected
select * from t order by id;
id | val
-: | :------
1 | foo
2 | blocker
3 | baz
One solution is to reset the sequence: the only safe starting point is the high watermark of the table:
select setval(
't_id_seq',
coalesce((select max(id) + 1 from t), 1),
false
);
Demo on DB Fiddlde: you can uncomment the setval() statement to see how it avoids the error.
Consider this table:
ex_table
| gid | val |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | v1 |
| 1 | v2 |
| 2 | v3 |
Notice that gid is the id-like column and not unique.
I want to be able to insert values into the table either by generating a unique gid or by specifying which one to use.
For example:
INSERT INTO ex_table (val)
SELECT --....
Should generate a unique gid, while
INSERT INTO ex_table (gid, val)
SELECT --....
Should use the provided gid.
Any way to do this?
You can do what you want to the letter of what you say by using overriding system value and an auto-generated column. For instance:
create table t (
gid int generated always as identity,
name varchar(255)
);
Then
insert into t (name) values ('abc');
insert into t (gid, name) overriding system value values (1, 'def')
will insert two rows with a gid value of 1.
Here is an example.
Just one caveat: Inserting your own value does not change the next value that is automatically generated. So, if you manually insert values that do not exist, then you might find that duplicates are later generated for them.
You can try something like this
CREATE SEQUENCE table_name_id_seq;
CREATE TABLE table_name (
gid integer NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('table_name_id_seq'),
name varchar);
ALTER SEQUENCE table_name_id_seq
OWNED BY table_name.id;
OR SIMPLY
CREATE TABLE table_name(
gid SERIAL,
name varchar);
AND THEN TO INSERT
INSERT INTO fruits(gid,name)
VALUES(DEFAULT,'Apple');
I need help with the insert statements for a plethora of tables in our DB.
New to SQL - just basic understanding
Summary:
Table1
Col1 Col2 Col3
1 value1 value1
2 value2 value2
3 value3 value3
Table2
Col1 Col2 Col3
4 value1 value1
5 value2 value2
6 value3 value3
Multiple tables use the same sequence of auto-generated primary keys when user creates a static data record from the GUI.
However, creating a script to upload static data from one environment to the other is something I'm looking for.
Example from one of the tables:
Insert into RULE (PK_RULE,NAME,RULEID,DESCRIPTION)
values
(4484319,'TESTRULE',14,'TEST RULE DESCRIPTION')
How do I design my insert statement so that it reads the last value from the PK column (4484319 here) and auto inserts 4484320 without explicitly mentioning the same?
Note: Our DB has hundreds and thousands of records.
I think there's something similar to (SELECT MAX(ID) + 1 FROM MyTable) which could potentially solve my problem but I don't know how to use it.
Multiple tables use the same sequence of auto-generated primary keys when user creates a static data record from the GUI.
Generally, multiple tables sharing a single sequence of primary keys is a poor design choice. Primary keys only need to be unique per table. If they need to be unique globally there are better options such as UUID primary keys.
Instead, one gives each table their own independent sequence of primary keys. In MySQL it's id bigint auto_increment primary key. In Postgres you'd use bigserial. In Oracle 12c it's number generated as identity.
create table users (
id number generated as identity,
name text not null
);
create table things (
id number generated as identity,
description text not null
);
Then you insert into each, leaving off the id, or setting it null. The database will fill it in from each sequence.
insert into users (name) values ('Yarrow Hock'); -- id 1
insert into users (id, name) values (null, 'Reaneu Keeves'); -- id 2
insert into things (description) values ('Some thing'); -- id 1
insert into things (id, description) values (null, 'Shiny stuff'); -- id 2
If your schema is not set up with auto incrementing, sequenced primary keys, you can alter the schema to use them. Just be sure to set each sequence to the maximum ID + 1. This is by far the most sane option in the long run.
If you really must draw from a single source for all primary keys, create a sequence and use that.
create sequence master_seq
start with ...
Then get the next key with nextval.
insert into rule (pk_rule, name, ruleid, description)
values (master_seq.nextval, 'TESTRULE', 14, 'TEST RULE DESCRIPTION')
Such a sequence goes up to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which should be plenty.
The INSERT and UPDATE statements in Oracle have a ...RETURNING...INTO... clause on them which can be used to return just-inserted values. When combined with a trigger-and-sequence generated primary key (Oracle 11 and earlier) or an identity column (Oracle 12 and up) this lets you get back the most-recently-inserted/updated value.
For example, let's say that you have a table TABLE1 defined as
CREATE TABLE TABLE1 (ID1 NUMBER
GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY
PRIMARY KEY,
COL2 NUMBER,
COL3 VARCHAR2(20));
You then define a function which inserts data into TABLE1 and returns the new ID value:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION INSERT_TABLE1(pCOL2 NUMBER, vCOL3 VARCHAR2)
RETURNS NUMBER
AS
nID NUMBER;
BEGIN
INSERT INTO TABLE1(COL2, COL3) VALUES (pCOL2, vCOL3)
RETURNING ID1 INTO nID;
RETURN nID;
END INSERT_TABLE1;
which gives you an easy way to insert data into TABLE1 and get the new ID value back.
dbfiddle here
I have a table with columns Form, Appraiser, date and Level
A form can never have same appraisers, and a form can never have same Levels.
I tried to make primary key(Form,appraiser) and primary key(Form,level) but it says that form has multiple primary keys
If i put primary key(form,appraiser,level) people can just insert the same form and appraiser twice but just with a different level and that violates my rules.
|Form|Appraiser|Level|
1 A 1
1 B 2
1 C 3
2 A 1
2 B 2
2 C 3
I believe you could use :-
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS mytable (form INTEGER, appraiser TEXT, level INTEGER, UNIQUE(form,appraiser), UNIQUE(form,level));
e.g. Using the following
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS mytable;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS mytable (form INTEGER, appraiser TEXT, level INTEGER, UNIQUE(form,appraiser), UNIQUE(form,level));
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES
(1,'A',1),(1,'B',2),(1,'C',3),
(2,'A',1),(2,'B',2),(2,'C',3)
;
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO mytable VALUES (1,'A',4);
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO mytable values (1,'Z',1);
The results are :-
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES
(1,'A',1),(1,'B',2),(1,'C',3),
(2,'A',1),(2,'B',2),(2,'C',3)
> Affected rows: 6
> Time: 0.083s
all added
but
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO mytable VALUES (1,'A',4)
> Affected rows: 0
> Time: 0s
not added as A has already apprasied form 1.
and also
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO mytable values (1,'Z',1)
> Affected rows: 0
> Time: 0s
not added as for 1 has already been appraised at level 1
We can try using two junction tables here:
CREATE TABLE form_appraiser (
form_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
appraiser_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (form_id, appraiser_id)
);
CREATE TABLE form_level (
form_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
level_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (form_id, level_id)
);
Each of these two tables would ensure that a given form can only be associated with a single appraiser or level.
Then, maintain a third table forms containing one record for each unique form. If you have the additional requirement that a given form can only have one appraiser or level, then add a unique constraint on the form, on one/both of the junction tables.
You can try add the unique constraint as a column identifier.
like
appraiser VARCHAR(50) UNIQUE,
form VARCHAR(50) UNIQUE,
level VARCHAR(50) UNIQUE,
In this case non of the values repeats. If you want a combination of values not to repeat you can use
UNIQUE(form, level)
This means you cannot have a form of the same level repeating.
I am having trouble figuring out how to insert multiple values to a table, which checks if another table has the needed values stored. I am currently doing this in a PostgreSQL server, but will be implementing it in PreparedStatements for my java program.
user_id is a foreign key which references the primary in mock2. I have been trying to check if mock2 has values ('foo1', 'bar1') and ('foo2', 'bar2').
After this I am trying to insert new values into mock1 which would have a date and integer value and reference the primary key of the row in mock2 to the foreign key in mock1.
mock1 table looks like this:
===============================
| date | time | user_id |
| date | integer | integer |
| | | |
And the table mock2 is:
==================================
| Id | name | program |
| integer | text | test |
Id is a primary key for the table and the name is UNIQUE.
I've been playing around with this solution https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/46410/how-do-i-insert-a-row-which-contains-a-foreign-key
However, I haven't been able to make it work. Could someone please point out what the correct syntax is for this, I would be really appreciative.
EDIT:
The create table statements are:
CREATE TABLE mock2(
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY UNIQUE,
name text NOT NULL,
program text NOT NULL UNIQUE
);
and
CREATE TABLE mock1(
date date,
time_spent INTEGER,
user_id integer REFERENCES mock2(Id) NOT NULL);
Ok so I found an answer to my own question.
WITH ins (date,time_spent, id) AS
( VALUES
( '22/08/2012', 170, (SELECT id FROM mock3 WHERE program ='bar'))
)
INSERT INTO mock4
(date, time_spent, user_id)
SELECT
ins.date, ins.time_spent, mock3.id
FROM
mock3 JOIN ins
ON ins.id = mock3.id ;
I was trying to take the 2 values from the first table, match these and then insert 2 new values to the next table, but I realised that I should be using the Primary and Foreign keys to my advantage.
I instead now JOIN on the ID and then just select the key I need by searching it from the values with (SELECT id FROM mock3 WHERE program ='bar') in the third row.