From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: select into...
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:12:05 -0600
Message-ID: <dcc563d10903161612t4ee3fe37k776764ecfc7dbed4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I want to execute a query below:
>
> select *
> into my_table
> from old_table
> where (some_condition);
>
> The trouble is that the manual page states that this would
> "SELECT INTO creates a new table and fills it with data
> computed by a query."
>
> What I want is to append my_table. Is there any way to
> get postgres to do what I want done?
You want insert:
insert into my_table select yada from old_table;
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