insert into a table with an identity column fails

[nbakh]

i am trying to insert into a table with an identity column using a select query.

However, if i include the identity column or ignore the identity column in my insert it throws errors. Is thee a way to insert into select * from a table if the insert table has an identity column?

%sql

CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE demo (

 id BIGINT GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY,

 product_type STRING,

 sales BIGINT

);

%sql

insert into demo_test

SELECT id,product_type, sales from demo

AnalysisException: Providing values for GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY column id is not supported.

%sql

insert into demo_test

SELECT product_type, sales from demo

nalysisException: Cannot write to 'spark_catalog.default.demo_test', not enough data columns; target table has 3 column(s) but the inserted data has 2 column(s)

[Debayan]

Hi, Looks like it is not supported.

Please refer: https://github.com/delta-io/delta/issues/1215

[Kaniz]

Hi @nauman bakhrani​​, We haven’t heard from you since the last response from @Debayan Mukherjee​ , and I was checking back to see if you have a resolution yet.

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[Hubert-Dudek]

instead of using

GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY,

you need to use

GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY

[karan_singh]

Hi, 

Specify insert columns as below

 
%sql
INSERT INTO demo_test (product_type, sales)
SELECT product_type, sales FROM demo