Re: Possible bug related to primary keys autogeneration

This is an artifact of how postgresql treats case.

PostgreSQL folds to lower case. short version "do not use UPPER CASE
identifiers"

If you are intent on using upper case you have to use new
String[]{"\"ID\""}) to force upper case (to be honest I'm not even sure
that would work)

as I said don't use UPPER CASE identifiers

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com

On 15 July 2016 at 10:09, Andrea Bergia <a(dot)bergia(at)list-group(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello, I have an issue regarding the retrieval of autogenerated keys using
> JDBC.
>
> I am running both the client and the server on windows; the client using
> the JDBC driver 9.4.1208 and the server has version "PostgreSQL 9.5.3 on
> x86_64-pc-mingw64, compiled by gcc.exe (Rev5, Built by MSYS2 project)
> 4.9.2, 64-bit".
>
> I have the following schema:
>
> CREATE TABLE Documents (
> id SERIAL,
> name VARCHAR(100),
> CONSTRAINT PK_Documents PRIMARY KEY (id)
> );
>
> and the following Java code:
>
> try (Connection connection =
> DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://localhost/sampledb",
> "sampledb", "")) {
> connection.setAutoCommit(false);
> try (PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO
> Documents (name) VALUES (?)", new String[]{"ID"})) {
> ps.setString(1, "DocName");
> ps.executeUpdate();
>
> try (ResultSet generatedKeys = ps.getGeneratedKeys()) {
> if (!generatedKeys.next()) {
> throw new RuntimeException("Should have been able to
> retrieve the generated keys");
> }
> int generatedKey = generatedKeys.getInt(1);
> System.out.println("The generated key is " + generatedKey);
> }
> }
> }
>
> I get the following exception:
> Exception in thread "main" org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR:
> column "ID" does not exist
>
> Debugging a bit, the issue seems to be in PgConnection.java, line 1641:
> since "escape" is set to "true", the driver is adding RETURNING "ID",
> quoting the column name. Since the column name's case is different between
> the CREATE TABLE statement and the code, PostgreSQL generates an exception.
> In fact, if I use new String[]{"id"}, the program works.
>
> I'm wondering whether this can be classified as a bug, or is intentional.
> The driver doesn't quote column names generally; it seems to me that this
> behavior is a bit annoying. However, I have no idea what the implications
> of removing the escaping would be. I do have a workaround for the moment,
> but I would like to know whether this is something that can be changed or
> not.
>
> I have uploaded a complete, minimal project which includes the code above
> at https://github.com/andreabergia/psql-jdbc-possible-bug-report.
>
> Thanks for your time, and for your excellent product.
>
> --
> Andrea Bergia
> List S.p.A.
>
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