Re: PostgreSQL primary (sequence) key issue (Ruby/Rails)

> On 01/03/07, Andrew Madu < andrewmadu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dave,
>> my apologies for contacting you off list but i'm having a spot of bother
>> with postgreSQL sequence setup in rails. In addition to what is mentioned
>> below, I have place the following line of code in my

The definition of primary key explicitly states that it can't be null.
You are trying to pass a null to user_id which won't work.

Joshua D. Drkae

>> environment.rbdocument:
>>
>> # Include your application configuration below
>> ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names = false
>> ActiveRecord::Base.set_sequence_name
>>
>> What I am overlooking here?
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Andrew Madu < andrewmadu(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> Date: 01-Mar-2007 15:28
>> Subject: Re: PostgreSQL primary (sequence) key issue
>> To: rubyonrails-talk(at)googlegroups(dot)com
>>
>> Hi,
>> I've followed the example given here:
>>
>> http://ar.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M000367
>>
>> and implemented set_sequence_name "seq_name" in my class. When I try to
>> update the user table with a new row from:
>>
>> http://localhost:3000/usertbl/new
>>
>> I get the following error message:
>>
>> RuntimeError: ERROR C23502 Mnull value in column "user_id"
>> violates not-null constraint
>>
>>
>> FexecMain.c L1795 RExecConstraints: INSERT INTO usertbl
>>
>>
>> What am I overlooking here?
>>
>> Also coud possibly give me any clues on how to setup an 'assigned'
>> primary
>> key in an ActiveRecord class?
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On 01/03/07, Andrew Madu <andrewmadu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > I have a sequence set up on one of my tables called seq_user_mytable. I
>> > tried the following with no joy:
>> >
>> > set_primary_key "user_id", :sequence => "seq_user_mytable" and:
>> >
>> > ActiveRecord:: Base.seq_user_mytable
>> >
>> > again with no joy. How do I implement a sequence in Rails/ActiveRecord?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Andrew
>> >
>>
>>
>

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