I have a foreign key constraint on a table and when I’m inserting data I get the following error:
ERROR: insert or update on table "gl_account_item" violates foreign key constraint "fk_gl_account_id" DETAIL: Key (gl_account_id)=(939) is not present in table "gl_account". SQL state: 23503
…if I query the table I can clearly see that it is:
Here is the CREATE TABLE statement:
I cannot understand why I'm getting a foreign key constraint violation error when the id is clearly there in the primary key table. If I remove the foreign key constraint and insert the data and put the constraint back and run a query with a join on that field everything works and the data is there:
Please help.
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I'm using PostgreSQL.
I have a table accounts with account_id as the primary key. I also have a second table called relations with a composite primary key (follower_id, following_id). Each relation must be unique.
ALTER TABLE accounts ADD CONSTRAINT users_pk PRIMARY KEY (account_id);
ALTER TABLE relations ADD CONSTRAINT relations_pk PRIMARY KEY (follower_id, following_id);
I want to create a foreign key constraint from follower_id (relations) -> account_id (accounts), and the same with following_id.
ALTER TABLE relations ADD CONSTRAINT follower_id_fk FOREIGN KEY (follower_id) REFERENCES accounts (account_id) ON DELETE CASCADE
This foreign key is not accepted by the database. I get the following error:
ERROR: insert or update on table "relations" violates foreign key constraint "follower_id_fk"
DETAIL: Key (follower_id)=(4) is not present in table "accounts".
I understand this, because it's a composite primary key.
What I want to achieve:
When an account is deleted, I want to delete all the records where the account_id is the follower_id (ON DELETE CASCADE) AND where it is the following_id.
I could do this in my nodejs code or with a trigger function, but I don't know what will be the best performance-wise. Does anyone knows a/the best solution?
ALTER TABLE ONLY rental ADD CONSTRAINT rental_customer_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY (customer_id) REFERENCES customer(customer_id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE RESTRICT;
ERROR: there is no unique constraint matching given keys for referenced table "customer"
ALTER TABLE ONLY customer ADD CONSTRAINT customer_store_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY (store_id) REFERENCES store(store_id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE RESTRICT;
ALTER TABLE ONLY film ADD CONSTRAINT film_language_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY (language_id) REFERENCES language(language_id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE RESTRICT;
ALTER TABLE ONLY inventory ADD CONSTRAINT inventory_store_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY (store_id) REFERENCES store(store_id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE RESTRICT;
ERROR: insert or update on table "inventory" violates foreign key constraint
I get these messages when i use the query tool for a sql query of over 1300 lines of code. I'm still learning so any pointers will be helpful
Unable to create a relationship 'FK_Sales_Date'.
The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_Sales_Date". The conflict occurred in database "SalesDataWarehouse", table "dbo.Date", column 'DateKey'.
i have 3 tables below
books
users
and
test.users_books with foreign keys
CREATE TABLE test.users_books (
user_id int NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (user_id),
FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES test.users(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE,
FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES test.books(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
);
while am trying to insert in to
INSERT INTO test.users_books values(11)
getting below error
ERROR: insert or update on table "users_books" violates foreign key constraint "users_books_user_id_fkey"
DETAIL: Key (user_id)=(11) is not present in table "users".
********** Error **********
ERROR: insert or update on table "users_books" violates foreign key constraint "users_books_user_id_fkey"
SQL state: 23503
Detail: Key (user_id)=(11) is not present in table "users".
how to insert 11 into this table with foreign key the id 11 having in books table.
is there any condition need insert for this table please let meknow
When trying to ALTER TABLE in Postgres 9.5 to create foreign key constraint: from product_template.product_brand_id to product_brand.id
ALTER TABLE public.product_template
ADD CONSTRAINT product_template_product_brand_id_fkey
FOREIGN KEY (product_brand_id)
REFERENCES public.product_brand (id) MATCH SIMPLE
ON UPDATE NO ACTION
ON DELETE SET NULL;
Returns error
ERROR: insert or update on table "product_template" violates foreign key constraint "product_template_product_brand_id_fkey"
DETAIL: Key (product_brand_id)=(12) is not present in table "product_brand".
STATEMENT: ALTER TABLE "product_template" ADD FOREIGN KEY ("product_brand_id") REFERENCES "product_brand" ON DELETE set null
Im confused why postgres is trying to find product_brand.product_brand_id, when the fkey is from product_template.product_brand_id to product_brand.id
Any ideas?
The error message simply states that there is at least one row in the table product_template that contains the value 12 in the column product_brand_id
But there is no corresponding row in the table product_brand where the column id contains the value 12
Key (product_brand_id)=(12) relates the source column of the foreign key, not the target column.
In simple terms, the value of FOREIGN KEY(product_brand_id) provided in your ALTER statement is not present in the source (product_brand) table.