IntegrityError duplicate key value violates unique constraint - django/postgres

Question

I\'m following up in regards to a question that I asked earlier in which I sought to seek a conversion from a goofy/poorly written mysql query to postgresql. I believe I suc

Answer 1

I encountered this error because I was passing extra arguments to the save method in the wrong way.

For anybody who encounters this, try forcing UPDATE with:

instance_name.save(..., force_update=True)

If you get an error that you cannot pass force_insert and force_update at the same time, you're probably passing some custom arguments the wrong way, like I did.