Theo's Typesafe Cult•3y ago

PRIMARY KEY in supabase DB

Hi everyone! I’m creating a full stack app with tRPC and I’ve connected Prisma to a supabase postgresql DB. Everything works fine but when I try to delete columns I have a error saying that I need a PRIMAY KEY. Can anyone please explain to me why I need that primary key in order to delete /edit my data in DB? 🙏 thanks

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zenith•3y ago

I'm confused, are you trying to delete the primary key or have you already deleted the primary key? You need a unique field for foreign key references in other tables Othwrwise your relational database becomes distinctly non relational which defeats the point

pogadevOP•3y ago

Thanks for the answer, @zenith I tired to delete a column from my table and I got a warning message that I need a primary key in order to be able to delete / edit columns. So I created a primary key and my question was why de we need a primary key, what’s the purpose 😆

zenith•3y ago

Primary keys is the way that rows in other tables relate to that table Think of it just like an ID in fact, my PKs are usually just called id

model Study {
    id                String    @id @default(cuid())
    title             String
    description       String?
    authorId          String
    author            User      @relation(fields: [authorId], references: [id])
    lessons           Lesson[]
}

model Lesson {
    id                String    @id @default(cuid())
    title             String
    studyId           String
    study             Study     @relation(fields: [studyId], references: [id])
}

model Study {
    id                String    @id @default(cuid())
    title             String
    description       String?
    authorId          String
    author            User      @relation(fields: [authorId], references: [id])
    lessons           Lesson[]
}

model Lesson {
    id                String    @id @default(cuid())
    title             String
    studyId           String
    study             Study     @relation(fields: [studyId], references: [id])
}

Here's an example

pogadevOP•3y ago

Thanks a lot for this answer

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PRIMARY KEY in supabase DB