I'm using Postgres, by the way.

On Aug 18, 1:27 pm, Oliver Beattie <oli...@obeattie.com> wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure why this is happening… it seems to work for me
> in nearly all other circumstances so I'm a bit stumped. Basically, I
> have a declarative table which has a character field as its primary
> key (it's not an ID which can be returned by the server), yet
> SQLAlchemy is issuing an INSERT…RETURNING statement for it.
>
> The scenario that seems to make it happening is like this. I'm trying
> to create a copy of an existing object, with a new ID. All the
> attributes on the new object should be pulled from the old object
> (which I'm doing through use of the iterate_properties iterator along
> with setattr, getarre calls), apart from this primary key field (name)
> which is a character field and will be something different. A relation
> on the "old" object will be updated to point at the created object.
> When commit() happens, I get an IntegrityError because it's thinking
> the db will return it the primary key (even though I have explicitly
> set it on the non-persistant instance).
>
> Is this a know bug or something I'm doing wrong?

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