From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ok, what am I doing wrong here?
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:29:06 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20040217082231.C41055@megazone.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040217100250.A65968@Denninger.Net>
References: <20040217100250.A65968@Denninger.Net>
sszabo@bigpanda.com
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Karl Denninger wrote:
> I want to insert values from one table into another, and add some "default"
> values (that are not defaults on the table different reasons - that is, this
> is maintenance function and in normal operation there would be "real" values
> there - and null is valid)
>
> So, I want to do, for example, the following:
>
> insert into table (id, time, type) values (select id, now(), '1' from secondtable);
>
> Postgres's command line pukes on this, complaining that "select" is invalid
> inside the values part of the definition.
>
> SQL's language specification says otherwise, as does "\h insert" from the
> command line.
I think what you want is
insert into table (id, time, type) select id, now(), '1' from secondtable;
The choices allowed right now are default values, something that is
basically a row constructor with values [*] or a query.
[*] - The full spec allows a list of row constructors but we don't
currently.
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