Hello,
I am trying to insert into a table to generate sequential ids. Is there a way to do this repeatedly using execute_values if there is only one column and it is auto incremented?
It seems the execute_values requires at least one non-default value.
I am trying to do this:
query = "INSERT INTO MYTABLE (id) VALUES (DEFAULT) RETURNING id;"
execute_values(cursor, query, args_list, template=None, page_size=100, fetch=True)
If I don't use a %s argument and just put dummy values in the arglist, I get error
E ValueError: the query doesn't contain any '%s' placeholder
I understand why this doesn't work because it can't extract the placeholder and replicate values there.
If I change DEFAULT to %s and try to use blank tuples I get this
E psycopg2.errors.SyntaxError: syntax error at or near ")"
E LINE 1: INSERT INTO MYTABLE (id) VALUES (),(),() RETURNING id;
If I use "DEFAULT" as a string it tries to insert a string into an int column, not use the DEFAULT value. Is there a way to insert the default value here? I don't see anything like this in the documentation.
My table looks like this:
"CREATE TABLE MYTABLE (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY)"
Thanks,
Steve