elegant way to fill a table with serial

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've to fill something like:

create table DESTtable1 (
  pk1 serial primary key,
--  rest of stuff
);

create table DESTtable2 (
  pk2 serial primary key,
  fk1 int references DESTtable1(pk1)
-- rest of stuff
);

from data that are such way

create table SRCtable1 (
  pk1 serial primary key,
--  rest of stuff
);

create table SRCtable2 (
  fk1 int references DESTtable1(pk1)
  ak int not null,
-- rest of stuff
  unique(fk1,aa)
);

substantially (fk1,aa) -> pk2

the best way I thought about it is

create table temp1 (
  pk2 serial primary key,
  fk1 int references DESTtable1(pk1),
  ak int not null
);

insert into temp1 (fk1,ak) select ....

insert into DESTtable2 (pk2,fk1,...)
  select (pk2,fk1...) from SRC2
  join temp1 ...
);

alter sequence seq_DESTtable2 RESTART currval('seq_temp1');

But it looks awful.

-- 
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it


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