From: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ok, what am I doing wrong here?
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:58:00 -0600
Message-ID: <20040217105800.A66571@Denninger.Net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040217082231.C41055@megazone.bigpanda.com>
References: <20040217100250.A65968@Denninger.Net>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:29:06AM -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> 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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