Cannot insert into custom table anymore?

[rouen-sk]

Let's say you want to save some extra data with your OSM import, for example I want to have timestamp of newest node or way in dataset. So I defined extra table for it, keep max timestamp I encounter while processing nodes and ways, and finally try to insert it while processing relations (normal OSM data tables and processing omitted for brevity):

local maxTimestamp = 0
local tables = {}

tables.osm_data_version = osm2pgsql.define_table({
	name = 'osm_data_version',
	columns = {
		{ column = 'timestamp', type = 'bigint', not_null = true }
	}
})

function osm2pgsql.process_node(object)
	
	if object.timestamp > maxTimestamp then 
		maxTimestamp = object.timestamp
	end

        ...
end

function osm2pgsql.process_relation(object)
    
	-- add single row with max timestamp from nodes and ways
	if maxTimestamp > 0 then
		print('MAXTIMESTAMP:' .. maxTimestamp)
		tables.osm_data_version:insert({
			timestamp = maxTimestamp
		})
		
		maxTimestamp = 0
	end

        ...

end

But if you do this, you will get error:

2025-06-17 07:53:40  ERROR: Failed to execute Lua function 'osm2pgsql.process_relation': test.lua:512: Error in 'insert': Trying to add relation to table 'osm_data_version'.

Looking at source code for this error, it seems that output_flex_t::check_and_get_context_object expect all tables to be node/way/relation tables? So you can't do simple insert into "custom" table like this anymore? (I say anymore, because this has to be new, I used to do this successfully some time ago).

[joto]

This was fixed in 608faef and is in version 2.1.1. Which version are you using?

[rouen-sk]

2.1.0. of course :) Thanks