Thread: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL with PowerBuilder, and Identity keys (serials)
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL
GetIdentity="Select currval('tablename_column_seq')".
I’m trying to get a Postgres DB version of an application I write in PowerBuilder working. The thing I’m stuck on is Identity keys – what you set up with the SERIAL attribute or SEQUENCEs / GENERATORs in Postgres.
I have the sequence set up and clearly working. And in PowerBuilder, I have added a section I found online to a file it uses to know how to deal with different aspects of different DBs (PBODBxxx.INI) for Postgres, including the following line for retrieving an identity key after saving a record, when the DB automatically fills in the value:
GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
That obviously depends on the generator being named “GEN_” plus the table’s name – which is true in our case.
But nothing like that is happening. Does anyone else have PostgresSQL working with PowerBuilder and identity keys, who can give me some pointers on how get this to work?
Thanks.
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I’m on PostgreSQL 9.6, 64-bit Windows.
That really is the correct name for the sequence, because I’m not using SERIAL. (I needed everything to match the naming in my existing DB I’m using for the app, Firebird SQL, so the changes to make it work with either DB would be as minimal as possible.) The setup of tables I’m using with this sort of thing are like the following example:
CREATE SEQUENCE GEN_CATEGORY MINVALUE 0;
CREATE TABLE CATEGORY(
CATEGORYNUM SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT NEXTVAL('GEN_CATEGORY'),
DESCRIPTION VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_CATEGORY PRIMARY KEY (CATEGORYNUM)
);
So as you can see GEN_ plus the tablename is indeed correct. The default on the CATEGORYNUM column is definitely working, which I tested with direct SQL commands: after inserting a row (with the CATEGORYNUM not specified in the INSERT), if I SELECT currval(‘GEN_CATEGORY’), it gives me the correct value, which is also what got saved in that column.
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From: Melvin Davidson [mailto:melvin6925@gmail.com]
Sent: August 5, 2017 4:46 PM
To: Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits <info@software4nonprofits.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL with PowerBuilder, and Identity keys (serials)
>GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
FYI, it would be helpful to specify the PostgreSQL version & O/S, but generically speaking, in PostgreSQL, when you generate a sequence
by specifying serial as data type, the name takews the form of tablename_columnname_seq, so in your case, try
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL
GetIdentity="Select currval('tablename_column_seq')".
BTW, in PostgreSQL, it is NOT recommended to use mixed case object names, as all names are converted to lowercase unless enclosed in double quotes.
On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits <info@software4nonprofits.com> wrote:
I’m trying to get a Postgres DB version of an application I write in PowerBuilder working. The thing I’m stuck on is Identity keys – what you set up with the SERIAL attribute or SEQUENCEs / GENERATORs in Postgres.
I have the sequence set up and clearly working. And in PowerBuilder, I have added a section I found online to a file it uses to know how to deal with different aspects of different DBs (PBODBxxx.INI) for Postgres, including the following line for retrieving an identity key after saving a record, when the DB automatically fills in the value:
GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
That obviously depends on the generator being named “GEN_” plus the table’s name – which is true in our case.
But nothing like that is happening. Does anyone else have PostgresSQL working with PowerBuilder and identity keys, who can give me some pointers on how get this to work?
Thanks.
--------------------------------------------------------
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DONATION and ACCOUNTS web site: http://www.Software4Nonprofits.com
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Hi,
Did you try bringing it to SAP?
Thank you.
On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits<info@software4nonprofits.com> wrote:
> Yes my direct SQL testing used all caps and worked fine.
>
> There is no error message. It's just that PowerBuilder's built-in mechanism that should retrieve the identity key column's value after an insert is done using its DataWindow control, that is based on the setting I gave in my first post,
>
> GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
>
> isn't working - the value doesn't get filled in. I have no way of knowing whether that code isn't getting called, isn't working, or what. (I tried a trace option in PowerBuilder, and it didn't show any call to that code, but it also didn't show any call to the corresponding code in my setup for Firebird SQL, where this works perfectly.)
>
> I really need responses from people who have successfully done this with PowerBuilder, because I think it's an issue about the combination of PowerBuilder and PostgreSQL, not PostgreSQL alone.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Dan Cooperstock
> DONATION and ACCOUNTS web site: http://www.Software4Nonprofits.com
> Email: info@Software4Nonprofits.com
> Phone: 416-423-7722
> Mail: 57 Gledhill Ave., Toronto ON M4C 5K7, Canada
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Sargent [mailto:robjsargent@gmail.com]
> Sent: August 5, 2017 5:30 PM
> To: Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits <info@software4nonprofits.com>
> Cc: Forums postgresql <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL with PowerBuilder, and Identity keys (serials)
>
>
>> On Aug 5, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits <info@software4nonprofits.com> wrote:
>>
>> I’m on PostgreSQL 9.6, 64-bit Windows.
>>
>> That really is the correct name for the sequence, because I’m not using SERIAL. (I needed everything to match the naming in my existing DB I’m using for the app, Firebird SQL, so the changes to make it work with either DB would be as minimal as possible.) The setup of tables I’m using with this sort of thing are like the following example:
>>
>> CREATE SEQUENCE GEN_CATEGORY MINVALUE 0;
>>
>> CREATE TABLE CATEGORY(
>> CATEGORYNUM SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT NEXTVAL('GEN_CATEGORY'),
>> DESCRIPTION VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
>> CONSTRAINT PK_CATEGORY PRIMARY KEY (CATEGORYNUM) );
>>
>> So as you can see GEN_ plus the tablename is indeed correct. The default on the CATEGORYNUM column is definitely working, which I tested with direct SQL commands: after inserting a row (with the CATEGORYNUM not specified in the INSERT), if I SELECT currval(‘GEN_CATEGORY’), it gives me the correct value, which is also what got saved in that column.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> Dan Cooperstock
>> DONATION and ACCOUNTS web site: http://www.Software4Nonprofits.com
>> Email: info@Software4Nonprofits.com
>> Phone: 416-423-7722
>> Mail: 57 Gledhill Ave., Toronto ON M4C 5K7, Canada
>>
>> If you do not want to receive any further emails from Software4Nonprofits, please reply to this email with the subject line "UNSUBSCRIBE", and we will immediately remove you from our mailing list, if you are on it.
>>
>>
>> From: Melvin Davidson [mailto:melvin6925@gmail.com]
>> Sent: August 5, 2017 4:46 PM
>> To: Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits
>> <info@software4nonprofits.com>
>> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL with PowerBuilder, and Identity keys
>> (serials)
>>
>> >GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
>>
>> FYI, it would be helpful to specify the PostgreSQL version & O/S, but
>> generically speaking, in PostgreSQL, when you generate a sequence by
>> specifying serial as data type, the name takews the form of
>> tablename_columnname_seq, so in your case, try
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype- numeric.html#DATAT
>> YPE-SERIAL
>>
>> GetIdentity="Select currval('tablename_column_seq')".
>>
>> BTW, in PostgreSQL, it is NOT recommended to use mixed case object names, as all names are converted to lowercase unless enclosed in double quotes.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits <info@software4nonprofits.com> wrote:
>>> I’m trying to get a Postgres DB version of an application I write in PowerBuilder working. The thing I’m stuck on is Identity keys – what you set up with the SERIAL attribute or SEQUENCEs / GENERATORs in Postgres.
>>>
>>> I have the sequence set up and clearly working. And in PowerBuilder, I have added a section I found online to a file it uses to know how to deal with different aspects of different DBs (PBODBxxx.INI) for Postgres, including the following line for retrieving an identity key after saving a record, when the DB automatically fills in the value:
>>>
>>> GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
>>>
>>> That obviously depends on the generator being named “GEN_” plus the table’s name – which is true in our case.
>>>
>>> But nothing like that is happening. Does anyone else have PostgresSQL working with PowerBuilder and identity keys, who can give me some pointers on how get this to work?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>> Dan Cooperstock
>>> DONATION and ACCOUNTS web site: http://www.Software4Nonprofits.com
>>> Email: info@Software4Nonprofits.com
>>> Phone: 416-423-7722
>>> Mail: 57 Gledhill Ave., Toronto ON M4C 5K7, Canada
>>>
>>> If you do not want to receive any further emails from Software4Nonprofits, please reply to this email with the subject line "UNSUBSCRIBE", and we will immediately remove you from our mailing list, if you are on it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Melvin Davidson
>> I reserve the right to fantasize. Whether or not you wish to share my
>> fantasy is entirely up to you.
>
> I don’t see that you posted any sort of error message?
> Also don’t test that sequence more than 64K times as you’ll certainly get a number too big for smallest :) Did your direct sql testing actually use ALL CAPS?
>
>
>
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>I’m on PostgreSQL 9.6, 64-bit Windows.
>That really is the correct name for the sequence, because I’m not using SERIAL.> GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
>isn't working
have actually been generated.
SELECT sequence_schema,
sequence_name
FROM information_schema.sequences
currvalReturn the value most recently obtained by
nextvalfor this sequence in the current session. (An error is reported ifnextvalhas never been called for this sequence in this session.)
I reserve the right to fantasize. Whether or not you
wish to share my fantasy is entirely up to you.
Igor, PowerBuilder is now being sold and supported by Appeon, not SAP, and I have this question also on a community discussion board there, but so far no answers. (I wish Postgres had a web-based community board, rather than just this mailing list with no history available!) I will post it to Appeon as an actual bug if I get stuck.
Melvin, I created the schema, so I know for sure what the naming is, and as I mentioned in another answer, I have done exactly what PowerBuilder should be doing with direct SQL statements in Postgres and they work perfectly.
It’s currval() that can’t be called before nextval(). Nextval() can always be called, and is the only thing that should be being called in this situation.
I think I can assure you all that although I’m a newbie with Postgres, I have long experience with various SQL database servers, I have read the relevant parts of the Postgres docs thoroughly, and I know what’s going on with the sequence within it. The problem is clearly in whatever PowerBuilder is doing with Postgres, but I was just hoping someone on this list would have experience with that combination and know the answer.
I really think there is no point in anyone else replying to this thread unless you have experience with both programs together, and have solved this problem for yourself. Thanks.
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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Melvin Davidson
Sent: August 5, 2017 7:05 PM
To: Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits <info@software4nonprofits.com>; Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>; Forums postgresql <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL with PowerBuilder, and Identity keys (serials)
On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Did you try bringing it to SAP?
Thank you.
On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits<info@software4nonprofits.com> wrote:
> Yes my direct SQL testing used all caps and worked fine.
>
> There is no error message. It's just that PowerBuilder's built-in mechanism that should retrieve the identity key column's value after an insert is done using its DataWindow control, that is based on the setting I gave in my first post,
>
> GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
>
> isn't working - the value doesn't get filled in. I have no way of knowing whether that code isn't getting called, isn't working, or what. (I tried a trace option in PowerBuilder, and it didn't show any call to that code, but it also didn't show any call to the corresponding code in my setup for Firebird SQL, where this works perfectly.)
>
> I really need responses from people who have successfully done this with PowerBuilder, because I think it's an issue about the combination of PowerBuilder and PostgreSQL, not PostgreSQL alone.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Dan Cooperstock
> DONATION and ACCOUNTS web site: http://www.Software4Nonprofits.com
> Email: info@Software4Nonprofits.com
> Phone: 416-423-7722
> Mail: 57 Gledhill Ave., Toronto ON M4C 5K7, Canada
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Sargent [mailto:robjsargent@gmail.com]
> Sent: August 5, 2017 5:30 PM
> To: Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits <info@software4nonprofits.com>
> Cc: Forums postgresql <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL with PowerBuilder, and Identity keys (serials)
>
>
>> On Aug 5, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits <info@software4nonprofits.com> wrote:
>>
>> I’m on PostgreSQL 9.6, 64-bit Windows.
>>
>> That really is the correct name for the sequence, because I’m not using SERIAL. (I needed everything to match the naming in my existing DB I’m using for the app, Firebird SQL, so the changes to make it work with either DB would be as minimal as possible.) The setup of tables I’m using with this sort of thing are like the following example:
>>
>> CREATE SEQUENCE GEN_CATEGORY MINVALUE 0;
>>
>> CREATE TABLE CATEGORY(
>> CATEGORYNUM SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT NEXTVAL('GEN_CATEGORY'),
>> DESCRIPTION VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
>> CONSTRAINT PK_CATEGORY PRIMARY KEY (CATEGORYNUM) );
>>
>> So as you can see GEN_ plus the tablename is indeed correct. The default on the CATEGORYNUM column is definitely working, which I tested with direct SQL commands: after inserting a row (with the CATEGORYNUM not specified in the INSERT), if I SELECT currval(‘GEN_CATEGORY’), it gives me the correct value, which is also what got saved in that column.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> Dan Cooperstock
>> DONATION and ACCOUNTS web site: http://www.Software4Nonprofits.com
>> Email: info@Software4Nonprofits.com
>> Phone: 416-423-7722
>> Mail: 57 Gledhill Ave., Toronto ON M4C 5K7, Canada
>>
>> If you do not want to receive any further emails from Software4Nonprofits, please reply to this email with the subject line "UNSUBSCRIBE", and we will immediately remove you from our mailing list, if you are on it.
>>
>>
>> From: Melvin Davidson [mailto:melvin6925@gmail.com]
>> Sent: August 5, 2017 4:46 PM
>> To: Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits
>> <info@software4nonprofits.com>
>> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL with PowerBuilder, and Identity keys
>> (serials)
>>
>> >GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
>>
>> FYI, it would be helpful to specify the PostgreSQL version & O/S, but
>> generically speaking, in PostgreSQL, when you generate a sequence by
>> specifying serial as data type, the name takews the form of
>> tablename_columnname_seq, so in your case, try
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-numeric.html#DATAT
>> YPE-SERIAL
>>
>> GetIdentity="Select currval('tablename_column_seq')".
>>
>> BTW, in PostgreSQL, it is NOT recommended to use mixed case object names, as all names are converted to lowercase unless enclosed in double quotes.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Dan Cooperstock at Software4Nonprofits <info@software4nonprofits.com> wrote:
>>> I’m trying to get a Postgres DB version of an application I write in PowerBuilder working. The thing I’m stuck on is Identity keys – what you set up with the SERIAL attribute or SEQUENCEs / GENERATORs in Postgres.
>>>
>>> I have the sequence set up and clearly working. And in PowerBuilder, I have added a section I found online to a file it uses to know how to deal with different aspects of different DBs (PBODBxxx.INI) for Postgres, including the following line for retrieving an identity key after saving a record, when the DB automatically fills in the value:
>>>
>>> GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
>>>
>>> That obviously depends on the generator being named “GEN_” plus the table’s name – which is true in our case.
>>>
>>> But nothing like that is happening. Does anyone else have PostgresSQL working with PowerBuilder and identity keys, who can give me some pointers on how get this to work?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>> Dan Cooperstock
>>> DONATION and ACCOUNTS web site: http://www.Software4Nonprofits.com
>>> Email: info@Software4Nonprofits.com
>>> Phone: 416-423-7722
>>> Mail: 57 Gledhill Ave., Toronto ON M4C 5K7, Canada
>>>
>>> If you do not want to receive any further emails from Software4Nonprofits, please reply to this email with the subject line "UNSUBSCRIBE", and we will immediately remove you from our mailing list, if you are on it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Melvin Davidson
>> I reserve the right to fantasize. Whether or not you wish to share my
>> fantasy is entirely up to you.
>
> I don’t see that you posted any sort of error message?
> Also don’t test that sequence more than 64K times as you’ll certainly get a number too big for smallest :) Did your direct sql testing actually use ALL CAPS?
>
>
>
>
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>I’m on PostgreSQL 9.6, 64-bit Windows.
>That really is the correct name for the sequence, because I’m not using SERIAL.> GetIdentity="Select currval('GEN_&TableName')"
>isn't working
If you are not sure what the correct name is (or is generated), then use the information schema to see what sequence names
have actually been generated.
SELECT sequence_schema,
sequence_name
FROM information_schema.sequences
ORDER BY 1, 2;
It might also be that you have not done a SELECT nextval(your_sequnce) before SELECT currval(your_sequence) in that session.
currval
Return the value most recently obtained by nextval for this sequence in the current session. (An error is reported if nextval has never been called for this sequence in this session.)
If that is the case, then you can get the current sequence value by treating the sequence like a table.
EG: SELECT seqeunce_name,
last_value
FROM your_seqeunce_name;
FYI, the structure of sequence tables is as follows:
seqeunce_name name
last_value bigint
start_value bigint
increment_by bigint
max_value bigint
min_value bigint
cache_value bigint
log_cnt bigint
is_cycled boolean
is_called boolean
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I reserve the right to fantasize. Whether or not you
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