Redshift Upserts w/ Python

redshift.py

import uuid
import psycopg2
from secret import REDSHIFT_CREDS
from secret import AWS_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY

def get_primary_keys(tablename, db):
    c = db.cursor()
    sql = "select indexdef from pg_indexes where tablename = '%s';" % tablename
    c.execute(sql)
    result = c.fetchall()[0][0]
    rfields = result.split('(')[1].strip(')').split(',')
    fields = [field.strip().strip('"') for field in rfields]
    return fields

def load_s3_file_into_redshift(s3path, tablename, delimiter='|'):
    """File must be gzipped:

    s3path on Amazon S3 - (str)
    tablename - (str)
    field delimiter - (str)"""

    temp_tablename = 'temp_%s' % uuid.uuid4().get_hex()

    db = psycopg2.connect(**REDSHIFT_CREDS)

    primary_keys = get_primary_keys(tablename, db)
    equals_clause = '{dest}.%s = {src}.%s'
    join_clause = ' AND '.join([equals_clause % (pk, pk) for pk in primary_keys])
    join_clause = join_clause.format(dest=tablename, src=temp_tablename)

    upsert_qry = """\
    CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE {src} (LIKE {dest});

    COPY {src} FROM '{s3path}' 
    CREDENTIALS 'aws_access_key_id={access_key};aws_secret_access_key={secret_key}' 
    DELIMITER '{delimiter}' gzip;

    BEGIN;
    LOCK {dest};
    DELETE FROM {dest} USING {src} WHERE {join_clause};
    INSERT INTO {dest} SELECT * FROM {src};
    END;
    """.format(dest=tablename,
               src=temp_tablename,
               s3path=s3path,
               join_clause=join_clause,
               access_key=AWS_ACCESS_KEY,
               secret_key=AWS_SECRET_KEY,
               delimiter=delimiter)

    c = db.cursor()
    c.execute(upsert_qry)
    db.commit()
    return s3path

Thanks for this!