On 3/31/20 3:57 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
On 3/31/20 3:27 PM, Stephen Lagree wrote:
Hello,

I am trying to insert into a table to generate sequential ids.  Is there a way to do this repeatedly using execute_values if there is only one column and it is auto incremented?
It seems the execute_values requires at least one non-default value.

I am trying to do this:
     query = "INSERT INTO MYTABLE (id) VALUES (DEFAULT) RETURNING id;"
     execute_values(cursor, query, args_list, template=None, page_size=100, fetch=True)

If I don't use a %s argument and just put dummy values in the arglist, I get error
E           ValueError: the query doesn't contain any '%s' placeholder
I understand why this doesn't work because it can't extract the placeholder and replicate values there.

If I change DEFAULT to %s and try to use blank tuples I get this
E           psycopg2.errors.SyntaxError: syntax error at or near ")"
E           LINE 1: INSERT INTO MYTABLE (id) VALUES (),(),() RETURNING id;

If I use "DEFAULT" as a string it tries to insert a string into an int column, not use the DEFAULT value.  Is there a way to insert the default value here?  I don't see anything like this in the documentation.

My table looks like this:
"CREATE TABLE MYTABLE (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY)"


A solution from Daniele Varrazzo.  I can't find the mailing list post where it appeared, just where I use it in code:


I was searching the wrong list it is in the pgsql-general list:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2Bmi_8ZQx-vMm6PMAw72a0sRATEh3RBXu5rwHHhNNpQk0YHwQg%40mail.gmail.com


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