Partial update on an postgres upsert violates constraint

[Andreas Terrius <gotenwinz99@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Basically I wanted to do a partial update inside pg (9.5), but it seems that a partial update fails when not all of constraint is fulfilled (such as the not null constraint)

Below are the sql queries I used,

CREATE TABLE jobs (
    id integer PRIMARY KEY,
    employee_name TEXT NOT NULL,
    address TEXT NOT NULL,
    phone_number TEXT
);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION upsert_job(job JSONB)
RETURNS VOID AS $$
BEGIN
INSERT INTO jobs AS origin VALUES(
    (job->>'id')::INTEGER,
    job->>'employee_name'::TEXT,
    job->>'address'::TEXT,
    job->>'phone_number'::TEXT
) ON CONFLICT (id) DO UPDATE SET
    employee_name = COALESCE(EXCLUDED.employee_name, origin.employee_name),
    address = COALESCE(EXCLUDED.address, origin.address),
    phone_number = COALESCE(EXCLUDED.phone_number, origin.phone_number);
END;
$$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL SECURITY DEFINER;


--Full insert (OK)
SELECT upsert_job('{"id" : 1, "employee_name" : "AAA", "address" : "City, x street no.y", "phone_number" : "123456789"}'::jsonb);

--Partial update that fulfills constraint (Ok)
SELECT upsert_job('{"id" : 1,  "employee_name" : "BBB", "address" : "City, x street no.y"}'::jsonb);

--Partial update that doesn't fulfill constraint (FAILS)
SELECT upsert_job('{"id" : 1,  "phone_number" : "12345"}'::jsonb);

--ERROR:  null value in column "employee_name" violates not-null constraint
--DETAIL:  Failing row contains (1, null, null, 12345).

I also tried explicitly stating the columns that I wanted to insert, and it also fails. How do I go around doing this ?

Thank you