From: Ash Grove <ash_grv7@yahoo.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: insert related data into two tables
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 17:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20060521005447.99475.qmail@web52504.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147642849.180115.107460@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>
You need to manage the transaction: begin a
transaction, execute your first insert, retrieve the
ID with curr_val(), execute the sencond insert and
commit the transaction.
--- filippo2991@virgilio.it wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have two tables like these:
>
> TABLE_1: people registry
> fields: ID_T1, SURNAME, NAME
> ID_T1 is primary key
>
> TABLE_2: work groups
> fields: ID_T2, TASK
> ID_T2 is foreign key related to ID_T1
>
> the first table is the list of employees, the second
> the task.
>
> Sometime I need to insert a new employee and at the
> same time the task
> for him:
> I want to INSERT TO table 1 JOHN DOE (the ID is
> assigned automatically
> since it's a primary key) and INSERT TO table 2 the
> ID and the task
> name for JOHN DOE. Is it possible to create a single
> query? What is the
> best way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Filippo
>
>
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