On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Robert James <srobertjames@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1/13/13, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Thanks. But how do I do that where I have many literals? Something like:
> 2013/1/14 Robert James <srobertjames@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> I have a lot of VALUES I want to INSERT. But only a subset of them -
>> only those that meet a JOIN criteria involving another table.
>>
>> I could INSERT them into a temp table, and then do a SELECT INTO. But
>> do I need to do that? Is there any way to do a INSERT... VALUES ...
>> WHERE...
>
> INSERT INTO ... SELECT is what you are looking for.
>
> Simple example:
>
> CREATE TABLE seltest (id INT);
> INSERT INTO seltest (id) SELECT 1;
INSERT INTO seltest (id, a, b) SELECT (1,2,3),(4,5,6),(7,8,9) WHERE b
IN (SELECT ...)
--
Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
insert into seltest (id, a, b) select a from (values (1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), ...) as t(a, b, c) join t2 on = ...;
