From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Subodh Kumar <subodh.kumar@epps-erp.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: creating table without columns
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:12:43 -0400
Message-ID: <13596.1540905163@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Subodh Kumar <subodh.kumar@epps-erp.com> writes:
> I have run below query it is created 'test' table without columns
> but table row count is 2.
> please give me clarity about this, i thought it may give syntax error but
> not
> either it must have 2 rows data but both are not happened.
> with ins_test as (select 1 as srno
> union
> select 2)
> select into test from ins_test;
I think you meant to write
with ins_test as (select 1 as srno
union
select 2)
select * into test from ins_test;
or possibly
with ins_test as (select 1 as srno
union
select 2)
select srno into test from ins_test;
What you did write has no columns in the SELECT result clause,
so the INTO creates a table of no columns --- but you get
the expected number of rows.
Postgres allows zero-column tables, and zero-column selects,
because otherwise there are too many weird corner cases;
for instance ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN would have to reject
dropping the last column. The SQL standard has a different
opinion about which way is less ugly ...
regards, tom lane
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