I have a table review(movie_id, user_id, reviewtext, date, time, likes, status)/
I get the error
column "exist" does not exist LINE 1: INSERT INTO review values ($1, $2, $3,$4,$5 ,0,"exist") ^ )
when I want to insert values into a postgresql database. I can not modify the code anymore so is there any way to make this work by altering the database like adding a column?
The code to insert is as follows:
$query = $this->db->prepare('INSERT INTO review values (:movieid, :userid, :review,:date,:time ,0,"exist")');
$result = $query->execute(Array(':movieid' => $movieid, ':userid' => $userid, ':review' => $review, ':date' => $date, ':time' => $time));
I understand that a way to fix this is to use single quotes for the column 'status' but the only thing I can do is alter the database.
No you can't.
If you had used proper insert - with named columns:
insert into review (column1, column2, column3) values (....)
then it could be theoretically possible to do by adding column "exist" and a trigger. But this would be very far away from being sane solution.
Related
I wanted to perform a conditional insert in PostgreSQL. Something like:
INSERT INTO {TABLE_NAME} (user_id, data) values ('{user_id}', '{data}')
WHERE not exists(select 1 from files where user_id='{user_id}' and data->'userType'='Type1')
Unfortunately, insert and where does not cooperate in PostGreSQL. What could be a suitable syntax for my query? I was considering ON CONFLICT, but couldn't find the syntax for using it with JSON object. (Data in the example)
Is it possible?
Rewrite the VALUES part to a SELECT, then you can use a WHERE condition:
INSERT INTO { TABLE_NAME } ( user_id, data )
SELECT
user_id,
data
FROM
( VALUES ( '{user_id}', '{data}' ) ) sub ( user_id, data )
WHERE
NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM files
WHERE user_id = '{user_id}'
AND data -> 'userType' = 'Type1'
);
But, there is NO guarantee that the WHERE condition works! Another transaction that has not been committed yet, is invisible to this query. This could lead to data quality issues.
You can use INSERT ... SELECT ... WHERE ....
INSERT INTO elbat
(user_id,
data)
SELECT 'abc',
'xyz'
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM files
WHERE user_id = 'abc'
AND data->>'userType' = 'Type1')
And it looks like you're creating the query in a host language. Don't use string concatenation or interpolation for getting the values in it. That's error prone and makes your application vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Look up how to use parameterized queries in your host language. Very likely for the table name parameters cannot be used. You need some other method of either whitelisting the names or properly quoting them.
For each row in table exam 'where exam.examRegulation isnull', I want to insert one corresponding row in table examRegulation and copy columnvalues from exam to examregulation. Apparently the following query ist too naive and must be approved:
insert into examRegulation (graduation, course, examnumber, examversion)
values (exam.graduation, exam.course, exam.examnumber, exam.examversion)
where ?? (select graduation, course, examnumber, examversion
from exam
where exam.examRegulation isnull)
Is there a way to do this in postgresql?
You may rephrase this as an INSERT INTO ... SELECT statement:
INSERT INTO examRegulation (graduation, course, examnumber, examversion)
SELECT graduation, course, examnumber, examversion
FROM exam
WHERE examRegulation IS NULL;
The VALUES clause, as the name implies, can only be used with literal values. If you need to populate an insert using query logic, then you need to use a SELECT clause.
I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but I'm trying to get into the nitty gritty of what I can do in postgres 9.6.1 and this seems like maybe its possible. So given this table:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS live_data;
CREATE TABLE live_data (
rec_id TEXT,
control_data JSONB
);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX rec_id_idx ON live_data (rec_id);
I want to be able to upsert individual props on the control_data json without having to upsert a whole new json string.
With no rows in that table yet I tried this:
INSERT INTO live_data(rec_id, control_data) VALUES ('1', '{"set":{"some_prop": 99}}')
ON CONFLICT (rec_id) DO UPDATE SET control_data->'set'->'some_prop' = 99;
FWIW I get this error on that query :
syntax error at or near "->"
Am I writing that query wrong and/or is what I want to do just not currently possible?
Use jsonb_set():
INSERT INTO live_data(rec_id, control_data)
VALUES ('1', '{"set":{"some_prop": 99}}');
INSERT INTO live_data(rec_id, control_data)
VALUES ('1', '{"set":{"some_prop": 88}}')
ON CONFLICT (rec_id) DO
UPDATE SET control_data =
jsonb_set(live_data.control_data, array['set','some_prop'], '88', true)
RETURNING *;
rec_id | control_data
--------+----------------------------
1 | {"set": {"some_prop": 88}}
(1 row)
If your json column has a value like below,
[
{
"Code":"xyz",
"Amount":[
{
"Type":"Pay1",
"Amount":"999",
"username":"henry"
},
{
"Type":"Pay2",
"Amount":"499",
"username":"rohilpatel",
"Bonus":"100"
}
],
"Currency":"$"
}
]
Below sql query will add the key-value pair OR update if exist at specified path. [Upsert will work like this way]
update tableName
SET columnName = jsonb_set(columnName, '{0,Amount,1,Bonus}', '200')
I'd like to generate a single sql query to mass-insert a series of rows that don't exist on a table. My current setup makes a new query for each record insertion similar to the solution detailed in WHERE NOT EXISTS in PostgreSQL gives syntax error, but I'd like to move this to a single query to optimize performance since my current setup could generate several hundred queries at a time. Right now I'm trying something like the example I've added below:
INSERT INTO users (first_name, last_name, uid)
SELECT ( 'John', 'Doe', '3sldkjfksjd'), ( 'Jane', 'Doe', 'adslkejkdsjfds')
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT * FROM users WHERE uid IN ('3sldkjfksjd', 'adslkejkdsjfds')
)
Postgres returns the following error:
PG::Error: ERROR: INSERT has more target columns than expressions
The problem is that PostgresQL doesn't seem to want to take a series of values when using SELECT. Conversely, I can make the insertions using VALUES, but I can't then prevent duplicates from being generated using WHERE NOT EXISTS.
http://www.techonthenet.com/postgresql/insert.php suggests in the section EXAMPLE - USING SUB-SELECT that multiple records should be insertable from another referenced table using SELECT, so I'm wondering why I can't seem to pass in a series of values to insert. The values I'm passing are coming from an external API, so I need to generate the values to insert by hand.
Your select is not doing what you think it does.
The most compact version in PostgreSQL would be something like this:
with data(first_name, last_name, uid) as (
values
( 'John', 'Doe', '3sldkjfksjd'),
( 'Jane', 'Doe', 'adslkejkdsjfds')
)
insert into users (first_name, last_name, uid)
select d.first_name, d.last_name, d.uid
from data d
where not exists (select 1
from users u2
where u2.uid = d.uid);
Which is pretty much equivalent to:
insert into users (first_name, last_name, uid)
select d.first_name, d.last_name, d.uid
from (
select 'John' as first_name, 'Doe' as last_name, '3sldkjfksjd' as uid
union all
select 'Jane', 'Doe', 'adslkejkdsjfds'
) as d
where not exists (select 1
from users u2
where u2.uid = d.uid);
a_horse_with_no_name's answer actually has a syntax error, missing a final closing right parens, but other than that is the correct way to do this.
Update:
For anyone coming to this with a situation like mine, if you have columns that need to be type cast (for instance timestamps or uuids or jsonb in PG 9.5), you must declare that in the values you pass to the query:
-- insert multiple if not exists
-- where another_column_name is of type uuid, with strings cast as uuids
-- where created_at and updated_at is of type timestamp, with strings cast as timestamps
WITH data (id, some_column_name, another_column_name, created_at, updated_at) AS (
VALUES
(<id value>, <some_column_name_value>, 'a5fa7660-8273-4ffd-b832-d94f081a4661'::uuid, '2016-06-13T12:15:27.552-07:00'::timestamp, '2016-06-13T12:15:27.879-07:00'::timestamp),
(<id value>, <some_column_name_value>, 'b9b17117-1e90-45c5-8f62-d03412d407dd'::uuid, '2016-06-13T12:08:17.683-07:00'::timestamp, '2016-06-13T12:08:17.801-07:00'::timestamp)
)
INSERT INTO table_name (id, some_column_name, another_column_name, created_at, updated_at)
SELECT d.id, d.survey_id, d.arrival_uuid, d.gf_created_at, d.gf_updated_at
FROM data d
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM table_name t WHERE t.id = d.id);
a_horse_with_no_name's answer saved me today on a project, but had to make these tweaks to make it perfect.
I have a table where I have added a new column, and I want to write a SQL statement to update that column based on existing information. Here are the two tables and the relevant columns
'leagues'
=> id
=> league_key
=> league_id (this is the new column)
'permissions'
=> id
=> league_key
Now, what I want to do, in plain English, is this
Set leagues.league_id to be permissions.id for each value of permissions.league_key
I had tried SQL like this:
UPDATE leagues
SET league_id =
(SELECT id FROM permissions WHERE league_key =
(SELECT distinct(league_key) FROM leagues))
WHERE league_key = (SELECT distinct(league_key) FROM leagues)
but I am getting an error message that says
ERROR: more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression
Any help for this would be greatly appreciated
Based on your requirements of
Set leagues.league_id to be permissions.id for each value of permissions.league_key
This does that.
UPDATE leagues
SET league_id = permissions_id
FROM permissions
WHERE permissions.league_key = leagues.league_key;
When you do a subquery as an expression, it can't return a result set. Your subquery must evaluate to a single result. The error that you are seeing is because one of your subqueries returns more than one value.
Here is the relevant documentation for pg84: