Re: JDBC driver - is "getGeneratedKeys()" guaranteed to return the ids in the same order a batch insert was made? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From electrotype
Subject Re: JDBC driver - is "getGeneratedKeys()" guaranteed to return the ids in the same order a batch insert was made?
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Msg-id c41792c8-7a94-2736-0316-dba3d1e7c885@gmail.com
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In response to Re: JDBC driver - is "getGeneratedKeys()" guaranteed to return the ids in the same order a batch insert was made?  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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Agreed.

However, this isn't really the purview of JDBC - I'm doubting it does anything that would cause the order to be different than what is received, and the batch items are sent and results processed sequentially.

The main question is whether any batch items are inserting multiple records themselves - i.e., RETURNING * is producing multiple results.  Whatever order RETURNING * produces is what the driver will capture - but it isn't responsible for guaranteeing that the order of multiple inserted records going in matches what comes out.  PostgreSQL needs to make that claim.  I don't see where it does (i've sent an email to see if adding such a claim to the documentation is proper).  Done manually one can always do "WITH insert returning SELECT ORDER BY", but it doesn't seem workable for the driver to try and do that when adding the returning clause, which I presume is what is in scope here.

David J.

Thank you, it's appreciated! I'm sure this clarification would help other developers too.

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