An, i hope, simple question i sadly can't find the answer to trough googling or RTFMing.
I want to create a column with a default value that is based in the first id of another table.
Something like that, which sadly gives me "ERROR: cannot use subquery in default expression"
ALTER TABLE foobar
ADD COLUMN foo INTEGER DEFAULT (SELECT id FROM blubb LIMIT 1);
The problem is, I can not simply assume that 'blubb' starts at 0 or 1 and I want to put a CONSTRAINT on it later on.
Simple answer: Use a function.
Example:
CREATE TABLE foo (id serial primary key);
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION max_foo() RETURNS int LANGUAGE SQL AS
$$ SELECT max(id) FROM foo; $$;
CREATE TABLE bar(id int not null default max_foo());
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I have a primary key column in my SQL table in PostgreSQL named "id". It is a "bigseries" column. I want to convert the column to a "UUID" column. It entered the below command in the terminal:
alter table people alter column id uuid;
and
alter table people alter column id uuid using (uuid_generate_v4());
but neither of them worked.
In both tries I got the error message
ERROR: syntax error at or near "uuid"
LINE 1: alter table people alter column id uuid using (uuid_generate...
What is the correct syntax?
First of all uuid_generate_v4() is a function which is provided by an extension called uuid-ossp. You should have install that extension by using;
CREATE EXTENSION uuid-ossp;
Postgresql 13 introduced a new function which does basically the same without installing extension. The function is called gen_random_uuid()
Suppose that we have a table like the one below;
CREATE TABLE people (
id bigserial primary key,
data text
);
The bigserial is not a real type. It's a macro which basically creates bigint column with default value and a sequence. The default value is next value of that sequence.
For your use case, to change data type, you first should drop the old default value. Then, alter the type and finally add new default value expression. Here is the sample:
ALTER TABLE people
ALTER id DROP DEFAULT,
ALTER id TYPE uuid using (gen_random_uuid() /* or uuid_generate_v4() */ ),
ALTER id SET DEFAULT gen_random_uuid() /* or uuid_generate_v4() */ ;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS people (
id uuid NOT NULL CONSTRAINT people_pkey PRIMARY KEY,
address varchar,
city varchar(255),
country varchar(255),
email varchar(255),
phone varchar(255)
);
This is the correct syntax to create table in postgres SQL, it's better to do these constraints at beginning to avoid any error.
For using alter command you would do the following:
ALTER TABLE customer ADD COLUMN cid uuid PRIMARY KEY;
Most of errors that you could find while writing command either lower case or undefined correct the table name or column.
I'm making a sql script so I have create tables, now I have a new table that have columns. One column has a FOREIGN KEY so I need this value to be SET DEFAULT at the value of the value of the original table. For example consider this two table
PERSON(Name,Surename,ID,Age);
EMPLOYER(Name,Surname,Sector,Age);
In Employer I need AGE to be setted on default on the AGE of Person, this only if PERSON have rows or just 1 row.
ID is Primary key for person and Surname,Sector for employer and AGE is FOREIGN KEY in Employer refferenced from Person
Example sql :
CREATE TABLE PERSON(
name VARCHAR(30) ,
surename VARCHAR(20),
ID VARCHAR(50) PRIMARY KEY,
Age INT NOT NULL,
);
CREATE TABLE EMPLOYER(
name VARCHAR(30) ,
Surename VARCHAR(20),
Sector VARCHAR(20),
Age INT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (Surename,Sector),
FOREIGN KEY (Age) REFERENCES Person(Age) //HERE SET DEFAULT Person(Age), how'??
);
Taking away the poor design choices of this exercise it is possible to assign the value of a column to that of another one using a trigger.
Rough working example below:
create table a (
cola int,
colb int) ;
create table b (
colc int,
cold int);
Create or replace function fn()
returns trigger
as $$ begin
if new.cold is null then
new.cold = (select colb from a where cola = new.colc);
end if;
return new;
end;
$$ language plpgsql;
CREATE TRIGGER
fn
BEFORE INSERT ON
b
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE
fn();
Use a trigger rather than a default. I have done things like this (useful occasionally for aggregated full text vectors among other things).
You cannot use a default here because you have no access to the current row data. Therefore there is nothing to look up if it is depending on your values currently being saved.
Instead you want to create a BEFORE trigger which sets the value if it is not set, and looks up data. Note that this has a different limitation because DEFAULT looks at the query (was a value specified) while a trigger looks at the value (i.e. what does your current row look like). Consequently a default can be avoided by explicitly passing in a NULL. But a trigger will populate that anyway.
I would like to link several sequences for generating default values for several columns of a table.
For example:
CREATE SEQUENCE seq1 START WITH 1;
CREATE SEQUENCE seq2 START WITH 1;
CREATE TABLE mytable (rid int GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS SEQUENCE seq1 PRIMARY KEY, p63 int GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS SEQUENCE seq2)
Unfortunately, an error is occured: "identity definition not allowed"
In Postgresql is working.
Any idea ?
Thanks
The first use of the sequence is allowed. You can write a BEFORE INSERT TRIGGER to insert sequence values into the second column.
Having the same issue, I came upon this post. I used another workaround :
CREATE SEQUENCE seq1 START WITH 1;
CREATE SEQUENCE seq2 START WITH 1;
CREATE TABLE mytable (
rid int DEFAULT nextval('seq1') NOT NULL,
p63 int NOT NULL
);
ALTER TABLE mytable ALTER p63 SET DEFAULT NEXTVAL('seq2');
Altering the p63 column after table creation made possible to use the seq2 sequence while it was not accepted when creating the table.
I have a table with below schema :
CREATE TABLE tbl_name (
id bigserial primary key,
phone_info json
);
Sample json data for phone_info column is given below .
{
"STATUS":{"1010101010":"1","2020202020":"1"},
"1010101010":"OK",
"2020202020":"OK"
}
Now I need to add a check constraint on phone_info column so that all key for "STATUS" ie(1010101010,2020202020) should exist as a (key,value) pair of phone_info column where value would be "OK".
So above sample data would satisfy the check constraint as there are following key value pair exists in phone_info column.
"1010101010":"OK"
"2020202020,":"OK"
I have tried below solution but this has not worked because array_agg function is not supported with check constraints.
ALTER TABLE tbl_name
ADD CONSTRAINT validate_info CHECK ('OK' = ALL(array_agg(phone_info->json_object_keys(phone_info->'STATUS'))) );
Can someone please help me out , Can I write a SQL function and use the function in check constraint?
With something like this I think you'll want an SQL function.
CREATE TABLE tjson AS SELECT '{
"STATUS":{"1010101010":"1","2020202020":"1"},
"1010101010":"OK",
"2020202020":"OK"
}'::json AS col;
perhaps something like:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_json_valid(json) RETURNS boolean AS $$
SELECT bool_and(coalesce($1->>k = 'OK','f'))
FROM json_object_keys($1->'STATUS') k;
$$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE;
... but remember that while PostgreSQL will let you modify that function, doing so can cause previously valid rows to become invalid in the table. Never modify this function without dropping the constraint then adding it back again.
Okay no seriously, if a PostgreSQL guru can help out I'm just getting started.
Basically what I want is a simple table like such:
CREATE TABLE schema.searches
(
search_id serial NOT NULL,
search_query character varying(255),
search_count integer DEFAULT 1,
CONSTRAINT pkey_search_id PRIMARY KEY (search_id)
)
WITH (
OIDS=FALSE
);
I need something like REPLACE INTO for MySQL. I don't know if I have to write my own procedure or something?
Basically:
check if the query already exists
if so, just add 1 to the count
it not, add it to the db
I can do this in my php code but I'd rather all that be done in postgres C engine
You have to add a unique constraint first.
ALTER TABLE schema.searches ADD UNIQUE (search_query);
The insert/replace command looks like this.
INSERT INTO schema.searches(search_query) VALUES ('a search query')
ON CONFLICT (search_query)
DO UPDATE SET search_count = schema.searches.search_count + 1;