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Idaswe
Idaswe

Reputation: 151

Knex and PostgreSQL: How to drop an unique index?

I have an app using knex for migration. Earlier someone made an unique index on one column using knex.raw like this:

const createProgrammeTable = knex => knex.raw(`
  CREATE TABLE programme (
    id             serial PRIMARY KEY,
    date           date NOT NULL,
    published      date,
    description    text
  );
  CREATE UNIQUE INDEX programme_date_index ON programme(date);
`)

When printing out the db using psql I get this info:

server=# \d programme;
                              Table "public.programme"
  Column   |  Type   | Collation | Nullable |                Default
-----------+---------+-----------+----------+---------------------------------------
 id        | integer |           | not null | nextval('programme_id_seq'::regclass)
 date      | date    |           | not null |
 published | boolean |           | not null |
Indexes:
    "programme_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
    "programme_date_index" UNIQUE, btree (date)

Now I want to remove the unique constraint but I'm not sure how. I've read that I can do this:

ALTER TABLE programme DROP INDEX programme_date_index;

But doing that using knex.raw gives this error:

migration failed with error: ALTER TABLE programme DROP INDEX programme_date_index - syntax error at or near "programme_date_index"
error: ALTER TABLE programme DROP INDEX programme_date_index - syntax error at or near "programme_date_index"
    at Connection.parseE (/Users/my-path/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:555:11)
    at Connection.parseMessage (/Users/my-path/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:380:19)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/Users/my-path/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:120:22)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:198:13)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:288:12)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:269:11)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:224:10)
    at TCP.onStreamRead [as onread] (internal/stream_base_commons.js:94:17)
error Command failed with exit code 1.

I've also tried using dropUnique like this:

exports.up = function(knex, Promise) {
  return knex.schema.alterTable("programme", function(t) {
    t.dropUnique("date", "programme_date_index")
  })
}

which gives the following error:

migration failed with error: alter table "programme" drop constraint "programme_date_index" - constraint "programme_date_index" of relation "programme" does not exist

Versions

Knex CLI version: 0.20.15 / Knex Local version: 0.20.15

server=# select version();
                                                     version
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 12.2 (Debian 12.2-2.pgdg100+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0, 64-bit

Can someone please help me/push me in the right direction?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 10983

Answers (3)

Sandip Subedi
Sandip Subedi

Reputation: 1077

Package

"knex": "^0.95.8",

This is what I normally do:

exports.up = function (knex) {
  return knex.schema.alterTable('users', function (table) {
    table.dropUnique('user_id');
  });
};
exports.down = function (knex) {
  return knex.schema.alterTable('users', function (table) {
    table.unique('user_id');
  });
};

But we ran into this interesting issue where we altered the column name before and renamed the column. For some reason the database still had a constraint with old column name as unique. So we had to remove the old constraint first. Something to keep in mind!

Upvotes: 0

Rahul Purohit
Rahul Purohit

Reputation: 585

export async function down(db: Knex): Promise<void> {
    db.schema.alterTable('tablename', function (t) {
        t.dropUnique([], 'indexname')
    })
}

Incase you're using typescript to remove index.

Upvotes: 6

Ariel
Ariel

Reputation: 138

using Knex with Posgresql, I've just resolved a similar problem this way:

import * as Knex from "knex";

export async function up(knex: Knex): Promise<void> {
    return await knex.schema
        .withSchema('public')
        .table('elements', (table) => {
            table.dropUnique(null, 'elements_name_unique');
        });
}

export async function down(knex: Knex): Promise<void> {
    return knex.schema.table('elements', (table) => {
        table.unique(['name']);
    });
}

Typescript constraint made it weird and I had to cheat a little with parameters.

I use Knex CLI version: 0.21.17 / Knex Local version: 0.21.18

Upvotes: 3

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