Passing UUID of one table to another table as a Foreign key value in PostgreSQL - postgresql

Question

I have table Employee in Postgres:
drop table if exists employee;
create table employee (
id uuid default uuid_generate_v4 () primary key,
first_name varchar not null,
last_name varchar not null
);
And another table salary :
drop table if exists salary;
create table salary (
check_id uuid default uuid_generate_v4 () primary key,
salary int not null,
employee_id uuid references employee (id)
);
employee_id is the foreign key to id in the Employee table, but I don't understand how to insert a value inside employee_id since UUID is unique.
I am inserting values into Employee table:
insert into employee (first_name, last_name, email, code) values ( 'jonh', 'smith', 'jonh#example.com', '1');
And then if I try insert values into salary table:
insert into salary (salary ) values ('1000');
Then select command will return employee_id value empty.
But if I make it default uuid_generate_v4 (), then result is: Key (employee_id)=(c4ccd745-02ba-4a0e-8586-32e3c6a2b84a) is not present in table "employee".
I understand that because employee_id is a foreign key it should match with uuid in employee, but since uuid is mostly unique, how can I make it work?

Answer 1

You have to use the uuid that was inserted into the employee table. You can do this with a CTE in a single statement:
WITH new_employee AS (
INSERT INTO employee (first_name, last_name, email, code)
VALUES ('jonh', 'smith', 'jonh#example.com', '1')
RETURNING id
)
INSERT INTO salary (salary, employee_id)
SELECT 1000, id
FROM new_employee;