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pankaj-ag

Issues with multiple conflict targets in Ecto Upsert

I have a table called languages with 4 fields, label, description, locale, and is_active.

label and locale are two different unique fields (not composite) in this table. I am trying to write an upsert function in a way that if the conflict happens on any unique filed (label or locale) then it should just update the label field and give the results.
This is my implementation

Migration file

  create unique_index(:languages, :label)
  create unique_index(:languages, :locale)

Context file

def upsert(attrs) do
    Repo.insert!(
      change_language(%Language{}, attrs),
      on_conflict: [set: [label: attrs.label]],
      conflict_target: [ :label, :locale]
    )
  end

but it’s giving me PostgreSQL error for the second element in the list

ERROR 42P10 (invalid_column_reference) there is no unique or exclusion constraint matching the ON CONFLICT specification
    (ecto_sql 3.4.4) lib/ecto/adapters/sql.ex:593: Ecto.Adapters.SQL.raise_sql_call_error/1
    (ecto 3.4.4) lib/ecto/repo/schema.ex:661: Ecto.Repo.Schema.apply/4
    (ecto 3.4.4) lib/ecto/repo/schema.ex:263: anonymous fn/15 in Ecto.Repo.Schema.do_insert/4
    (ecto 3.4.4) lib/ecto/repo/schema.ex:164: Ecto.Repo.Schema.insert!/4

Can you please help me to figure out what is going on here?

I think it’s assuming that it’s a combined key. Is there any way to set two different unique keys as a conflict target?

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jpjvs

jpjvs

Has anyone figured out how to do what the OP has asked? I find myself in the same situation. When trying to pass multiple columns as conflict_targets for an Upsert Ecto interprets them as a composite key, not as separate unique keys which are all unique constraints individually.

axelson

axelson

Scenic Core Team

Since this post appears very popular (the link in post 2 has almost 500 views!) and I just hit this scenario I wanted to give an update on this thread.

From my (admittedly limited) research it appears that Postgres does not support setting a conflict target on two independent unique columns:

So you need to choose one of them at a time to choose as the upsert target, probably by first fetching the record based on both columns.

Either that or switch your requirements to instead create a compound/combined unique index if you deice to instead check only for uniqueness across both columns.

thiagomajesk

thiagomajesk

The error says you need a unique constraint in those columns, do you have those constraints in your migration?

Besides that, I’m not sure what could be wrong here. Maybe you should take a look at the documentation that talks about this, it’s pretty good actually: Constraints and Upserts — Ecto v3.14.0.

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