Thanks for the reply, Ron!
I'm not sure I see how to make your suggestion work, though. Suppose I dump the three tables to CSV as you suggest (and write a script to extract the relevant records from those CSV dumps in the correct order). It might be that in the dev database, the next generated key values are 199 for farm's id, 2145 for crop's id and 10242 for deliveries' id. The databases are independent.
Just inserting the records in the same order doesn't take care of setting the foreign key values correctly -- does it? I think I'm really looking for a solution more along the lines of the link in my original post.
Best,
Dow
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 6:26 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Frame challenge: why can't you just "\copy to" the dev database tables in the correct order, to satisfy foreign key requirements?
On 10/4/23 18:59, Dow Drake wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to write a postgresql script to replicate a hierarchical structure in a live database into my development database, where I can debug and test more easily. I can extract the data from the live database that needs to be inserted, but I'm having trouble writing the insertion script
Here's a simplified version of the problem I'm trying to solve:There are three tables: farms, crops and deliveries where a farm has many crops and a crop has many deliveries.
create table farms (id bigint NOT NULL GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY,name character varying(30)
);create table crops (id bigint NOT NULL GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY,farm_id bigint not null
name character varying(30)
);
create table deliveries (id bigint NOT NULL GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY,crop_id bigint not null
ticket character varying(30)
);I want to insert a farm record, then insert two crops associated with that farm, then insert two deliveries for each of the the two crops so that in the end, my tables look like this:farmsid name1 'Happy Valley Farm'
cropsid farm_id name1 1 'corn'2 1 'wheat'
delvieries
id crop_id ticket1 1 '3124'2 2 '3127'3 1 '3133'4 2 '3140'
It's important that the deliveries get assigned to the right crops. I think this post: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/199916gets close to what I need, but I haven't been able to figure out how to adapt it to multiple records.
Thanks for any help on this!
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