From: Cliff Wells <cliff@develix.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: INSERT INTO...RETURNING vs SELECT
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:12:53 -0700
Message-ID: <1270419173.4749.139.camel@portable-evil> (raw)
I was doing some experimenting and was wondering why the following does
not work:
CREATE TABLE accounts (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
accounts_id INTEGER REFERENCES accounts,
name TEXT
);
INSERT INTO accounts (accounts_id, name) VALUES (
(INSERT INTO accounts (accounts_id, name) VALUES (NULL, 'test 1') RETURNING id), 'test 2');
ERROR: syntax error at or near "INTO"
Of course, the following works fine:
INSERT INTO accounts (accounts_id, name) VALUES (NULL, 'test 1');
INSERT INTO accounts (accounts_id, name) VALUES (
(SELECT id FROM accounts WHERE name='test 1'), 'test 2');
As far as I can see, INSERT INTO...RETURNING is semantically equivalent
to SELECT...FROM with a side-effect, so it seems this construct should
work. Can someone shed some light?
Regards,
Cliff
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