Re: Need help with upsert

Hi,

> ERROR: column reference "firewall" is ambiguous
> LINE 3: ... a WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM upsert b WHERE b.firewall...

set firewal = misses a table

HTH

Kind regards/met vriendelijke groet,

Serge Fonville

http://www.sergefonville.nl

2013/12/4 Eric Lamer <eric(at)phoenixsecure(dot)com>

> Hi,
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> I need some help with upsert.
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> Some info on what I want to do:
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> Each day I create a table for my firewall logs. I have one entry for
> one occurrence of all the field except sum, which is the number of
> occurrence I have of each log that match all the field. My table has the
> following field:
> firewall,action,src_zone,src_ip,dst_zone,dst_ip,proto,port,hex1,hex2,sum
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> Each day I want to copy the last 7 days into one table so I have one
> table with the last 7 days of logs.
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> So I want to copy the data from 7 tables into 1. If the row does not
> exist I just insert and if the row already exist I just update the sum
> (existing sum + new sum).
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> Public.test is the table I use for the last 7 days logs.
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> daily.daily_20131202 is table for 1 day.
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> I will run this command 7 times with different daily table.
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> WITH upsert as
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> (update public.test T set
> firewall=S.firewall,action=S.action,src_zone=S.src_zone,src_ip=S.src_ip,dst_zone=S.dst_zone,dst_ip=S.dst_ip,proto=S.proto,port=S.port,hex1=S.hex1,hex2=S.hex2,sum=T.sum+S.sum
> from daily.daily_20131202 S where (T.firewall=S.firewall and
> T.action=S.action and T.src_zone=S.src_zone and T.src_ip=S.src_ip and
> T.dst_zone=S.dst_zone and T.dst_ip=S.dst_ip and T.proto=S.proto and
> T.port=S.port and T.hex1=S.hex1 and T.hex2=S.hex2) RETURNING * )
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> insert into public.test select * from daily.daily_20131202 a WHERE NOT
> EXISTS (SELECT * FROM upsert b WHERE a.firewall=b.firewall and
> a.action=b.action and a.src_zone=b.src_zone and a.src_ip=b.src_ip and
> a.dst_zone=b.dst_zone and a.dst_ip=b.dst_ip and a.proto=b.proto and
> a.port=b.port and a.hex1=b.hex1 and a.hex2=b.hex2);
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> When I run the command I get an error
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> ERROR: column reference "firewall" is ambiguous
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> LINE 3: ... a WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM upsert b WHERE b.firewall...
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> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
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> Also, is there an easier way to do that?
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> Thanks for the help.
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