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From: Reinoud van Leeuwen <reinoud.v@n.leeuwen.net>
To: Postgres-SQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Copying rows between tables?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:32:26 +0100
Message-ID: <20040113173226.X66382@spoetnik.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074011028.18994.18.camel@weaver.tuc.noao.edu>
References: <1074011028.18994.18.camel@weaver.tuc.noao.edu>

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:23:48AM -0700, Steve Wampler wrote:
> 
> I know I can select from one table into a new table, but is
> there a way to select from one table into an existing table
> (aside from copying everything to a file, editing the file
> and then copying from that file)?  Without destroying existing
> entries, of course...

insert into desttable (col1, col2, col3)
select col1, col2, col3 from sourcetable
where somecol = somevalue;


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