On 6/13/24 12:57, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, David G. Johnston wrote:
Because you specified company_name in the column listing for the things
you are inserting values for. So in column position 2 you must have a
value than can be inserted into the company_name column. It is utterly
immaterial how you specified the value for column position 1.
We can't help you understand if you don't show a complete working example
and ask a question in relation to that example. I suggest you start from
scratch, this time using scripts, so that your work is recorded and
replayable.
David,
INSERT into companies (company_nbr,company_name,industry,status) VALUES
(DEFAULT,'A new company name', 'Manufacturing',DEFAULT);
I always write scrips for SQL, R, GRASS, Python, bash. Above is a redacted
version of the single name I tried adding to the companies table.
Yesterday, before learning to use DEFAULT for the company_nbr PK I entered
all rows using company_nbr 2342-2391. This morning, after running the
Not with:
Table "public.companies"
[...]
Indexes:
"organizations_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (company_nbr)
That would throw duplicate key errors.
Are you sure that you did not do this on the contacts table as the
company FK back to companies?
single-line INSERT command company numbers from 2341-2392 all had 'A new
company name' as the company_name.
HTH,
Rich
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