Re: BDR duplicate key value violates unique constraint error

NVM. I asked people in IRC and it turns out that after I used ALTER
DATABASE bdrdemo SET default_sequenceam=department_id_seq; command I have
to exit from psql session first and it works again :)

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:

> On 24 November 2014 at 09:55, Jirayut Nimsaeng <jirayut(at)proteus-tech(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using PostgreSQL BDR 9.4beta2 to test BDR capability right now.
>>
>> $ psql --version
>> psql (PostgreSQL) 9.4beta2
>>
>> I used database name bdrdemo for BDR then I've created tables with this
>> DDL
>>
>> CREATE TABLE DEPARTMENT(
>> ID SERIAL PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
>> DEPT CHAR(50) NOT NULL,
>> EMP_ID INT NOT NULL
>> );
>>
>> I can confirm that both sides have table created with \d
>>
>> bdrdemo=# \d
>> List of relations
>> Schema | Name | Type | Owner
>> --------+-------------------+----------+----------
>> public | department | table | postgres
>> public | department_id_seq | sequence | postgres
>> (2 rows)
>>
>> then someone give me this command to make sure that serial primary key
>> will have it own sequence so I put it on both nodes
>>
>> bdrdemo=# ALTER DATABASE bdrdemo SET default_sequenceam=department_id_seq;
>> ALTER DATABASE
>>
>> Then I insert data with command
>>
>> bdrdemo=# insert into DEPARTMENT (DEPT, EMP_ID) values
>> ('RANDOM_INSERT','1234');
>> INSERT 0 1
>>
>> I can confirm it works on both side
>>
>> bdrdemo=# SELECT * FROM department;
>> id | dept | emp_id
>> ----+----------------------------------------------------+--------
>> 1 | RANDOM_INSERT | 1234
>> (1 row)
>>
>> But as you can see the id start from 1 instead of high number. I knew
>> because I got this working before and if you insert data from another node
>> I will get this error
>>
>> bdrdemo=# insert into DEPARTMENT (DEPT, EMP_ID) values
>> ('RANDOM_INSERT','1234');
>> ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "department_pkey"
>> DETAIL: Key (id)=(1) already exists.
>>
>> Anyone has idea on this?
>>
>
> You'll need to use global sequences with BDR:
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/BDR_Global_Sequences
>
> Thom
>