Re: New user questions

On 7/14/21 10:35 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>> Then you want to take a look at this:
>> https://www.psycopg.org/docs/sql.html
>
> Adrian,
>
> Based on pages 1-2 of that doc I've re-written one each of an insert and
> select query. When they are correct I'll do the rest of the insert and
> select queries.
>
> Query 1:
> cur.execute(
>     sql.SQL("insert into {} values (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s)"
>         .format(sql.identifier('contacts')),
>         [c.nbr, a.date, a.type, a.notes, a.next]))

Where are c.nbr and a.* coming from? If they are supposed to be table
qualified values this will not work.

Also it is sql.Identifier.

>
> Query 2:
> query = sql.SQL("select {fields} from {tables}").format(
>       fields = sql.SQL(',').join([
>       sql.identifier('p.lname'),
>       sql.identifier('p.fname'),
>       sql.identifier('p.loc_nbr'),
>       sql.identifier('p.job_title'),
>       sql.identifier('p.direct_phone'),
>       sql.identifier('p.active'),
>       sql.identifier('c.org_name'),
>       sql.identifier('l.loc_nbr'),
>       sql.identifier('l.loc_name'),
>       sql.identifier('a.act_date'),
>       sql.identifier('a.act_type'),
>       sql.identifier('a.notes'),
>       sql.identifier('a.next_contact'),
>       ])
>       tables = sql.SQL(',').join([
>       sql.identifier('people as p'),
>       sql.identifier('companies as c on c.org_nbr = p.org_nbr'),
>       sql.identifier('locations as l on l.org_nbr = o.org_nbr and
> l.loc_nbr = p.loc_nbr'),
>       sql.identifier('contacts as a on a.person_nbr = p.person_nbr'),
>       ])
>       where p.lname = (%s) and p.fname = (%s)
>       group by a.act_date order by a.act_date", (lname,fname))

This will not work, if for no other reason that 'companies as c on
c.org_nbr = p.org_nbr', etc are not identifiers and it is sql.Identifier.

Also it would be simpler for this case just to create a quoted
statement, something like:
"""SELECT
fld_1, fld_2, fld_3
FROM
some_table AS st
JOIN
another_table AS a
ON
st.id = a.a_id
WHERE
st.fld_1 = 'something'
"""
>
>> For an UPDATE example see my answer to this Stack Overflow question:
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68321746/how-to-create-a-dynamic-update-query-in-sql-using-python/68323019#comment120800261_68323019
>>
>
> I'll read this again in close detail after I understand how to write insert
> and select queries.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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