Re: MoveToInsertRow on a table without a primary key - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Andrew Hastie
Subject Re: MoveToInsertRow on a table without a primary key
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Msg-id 4F60AF2F.3000308@ahastie.net
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In response to Re: MoveToInsertRow on a table without a primary key  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
Responses Re: MoveToInsertRow on a table without a primary key  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
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Not sure if this helps but:-
   1. Examination of the JBC4 spec makes no mention of a PK being a
pre-requisite for an updatable ResultSet. It implies "cursors" or
similar are employed.
   2. MS SQLServer 2008 and IBM DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows also have a
similar restriction.

Anyway, a table with no PK is bad design of your database tables anyway ;-)

Andrew

On 14/03/12 14:05, Dave Cramer wrote:
> Pretty sure a primary key is a pre-requisite for an updatable result set.
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> Dave Cramer
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:03 AM,<patrick.balleux@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a table in a database that does not have a primary key.  In the process of migrating data from Oracle to
Postgres,I am using ResultSets to populate the Postgres tables. 
>>
>> Basically, all is working well except for tables that do not have a primary key.  When I reach the "movetoinsertrow"
instructionin my code, the jdbc driver raises an exception about the missing primary key. 
>>
>> The workaround would be to add a temporary primary key to such table, but I want to avoid that.  I did the same test
withHSQLDB and it works.  To me, it seems like a bug. 
>>
>> I googled around for the solution, but found nothing.
>>
>> Any tips?
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