On 4/11/23 12:47, Federico wrote:
Hello list,
I have a few clarification questions regarding using insert with returning.
The use case is SQLAlchemy development, where the orm wants to insert
a list of rows,
get back the generated ids, defaults, etc, and match the returned values with
the original list of orm objects.
The following assumes a table like this
CREATE TABLE t(
id SERIAL,
data TEXT -- type here can be anything
)
On PostgreSQL, since SQLAlchemy version 1.4 (Mar 2021) this operation has used
INSERT INTO t(data) VALUES ('a'), ('b'), ('c') RETURNING id
but we were recently made aware that there is no guarantee on the
order of the returned columns.
1) Because returned data in SQL is inherently unordered.
2) What would you order by, id or data or both?
Sorry for the long email,
Thanks
Federico
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