Migrating data from old table to new table Postgres with extra column - sql

Question

Table Structure:
Old Table Structure:
New Table Structure:
Query:
INSERT INTO hotel (id, name, hotel_type, active, parent_hotel_id)
SELECT id, name, hotel_type, active, parent_hotel_id
FROM dblink('demopostgres', 'SELECT id, name, hotel_type, active, parent_hotel_id FROM hotel')
AS data(id bigint, name character varying, hotel_type character varying, active boolean, parent_hotel_id bigint);
Following error occurs:
ERROR: null value in column "created_by" violates not-null constraint
DETAIL: Failing row contains (1, Test Hotel, THREE_STAR, t, null,
null, null, null, null, null). SQL state: 23502
I tried to insert other required columns
Note: created_by as Jsonb
created_by = '{
"id": 1,
"email": "tes#localhost",
"login": "test",
"lastName": "Test",
"firstName": "Test",
"displayName": "test"
}'
created_date = '2020-02-22 16:09:08.346'
How can I pass default values for created_by and created_date column while moving data from the old table?

Answer 1

There are several choices.
First the INSERT is failing because the field is NOT NULL. You could ALTER TABLE(https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-altertable.html)as to unset that for the import, update the fields with values and the reset NOT NULL.
ALTER [ COLUMN ] column_name { SET | DROP } NOT NULL
Two, as #XraySensei said you could add DEFAULT values to the table using ALTER TABLE:
ALTER TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] [ ONLY ] name [ * ]
action [, ... ]
ALTER [ COLUMN ] column_name SET DEFAULT expression
Third option is to embed the defaults into the query:
create table orig_test(id integer NOT NULL, fld_1 varchar, fld_2 integer NOT NULL);
insert into orig_test(id, fld_1, fld_2) values (1, 'test', 4);
insert into orig_test(id, fld_1, fld_2) values (2, 'test', 7);
insert into default_test (id, fld_1, fld_2) select id, fld_1, fld_2 from orig_test ;
ERROR: null value in column "fld_3" violates not-null constraint
DETAIL: Failing row contains (1, test, 4, null).
insert into default_test (id, fld_1, fld_2, fld_3) select id, fld_1, fld_2, '06/14/2020' AS fld_3 from orig_test ;
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