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João Ferreira
João Ferreira

Reputation: 191

How to get the generated id from an insert to a postgres foreign table?

I'm using PostgreSQL version 13.2 and I need to do an insert into a foreign table (Postgres also), that has a sequence generated id, returning the generated id from the foreign table.

I've added the "postgres_fdw" extension, created the server and the user mapping.

When I do:

INSERT INTO public.remote_users (name) VALUES ('username') RETURNING id;

Using the following foreign table definition:

CREATE FOREIGN TABLE public.remote_users
(
    id bigint,
    name character varying(20)
)
SERVER remote
OPTIONS (schema_name 'public', table_name 'users');

I get an error saying that id can't be null (because the fdw builds the remote insert statement using the 'id' column and it has a non-null constraint).

ERROR: null value in column "id" of relation "users" violates not-null constraint DETAIL: Failing row contains (null, username). CONTEXT: remote SQL command: INSERT INTO public.users(id, name) VALUES ($1, $2) RETURNING id SQL state: 23502

Using this foreign table definition:

CREATE FOREIGN TABLE public.remote_users
(
    name character varying(20)
)
SERVER remote
OPTIONS (schema_name 'public', table_name 'users');

I get an error saying that "column "id" does not exist".

Is there any way to make the INSERT INTO public.remote_users (name) VALUES ('username') RETURNING id; statement work?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2208

Answers (3)

Jakal
Jakal

Reputation: 78

In my case when encountering this error, I had imported the schema from the remote database into my local database. When trying to insert a record, it too raised a constraint error about the primary key. I'm using pgAdmin4, so my solution was to find the foreign table schema I had imported into my local database, right click it to select properties, and deleted the primary key column under the 'Columns' tab. That fixed my issue and I can insert records into the foreign table now from my local database.

Upvotes: 0

Indunil Udayangana
Indunil Udayangana

Reputation: 41

Try this query to create table

CREATE FOREIGN TABLE public.remote_users
(
    id serial,
    name character varying(20)
)
SERVER remote
OPTIONS (schema_name 'public', table_name 'users');

Upvotes: 0

João Ferreira
João Ferreira

Reputation: 191

I found a workaround (although it isn't the solution I desired).

Creating a before insert trigger on the remote table to check for null id and replacing by the sequence value, I can use the insert (using the foreign table definition specifying the id column).

More explicitly...

On remote:

CREATE FUNCTION public.users_insert()
    RETURNS trigger
    LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
AS $BODY$
BEGIN
  IF (new.id IS NULL) THEN
     new.id = nextval('public.users_id_seq'::regclass);
  END IF;
  RETURN new;
END;
$BODY$;

CREATE TRIGGER insert_tr
    BEFORE INSERT
    ON public.users
    FOR EACH ROW
    EXECUTE PROCEDURE public.users_insert();

Upvotes: 3

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