From: Philip Hallstrom <postgresql@philip.pjkh.com>
To: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Seeking quick way to clone a row, but give it a new pk.
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:17:18 -0600 (CST)
Message-ID: <20070207181622.I3035@bravo.pjkh.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45CA50E6.6090006@obviously.com>
References: <45CA50E6.6090006@obviously.com>
> I need to create some nearly identical copies of rows in a complicated
> table.
>
> Is there a handy syntax that would let me copy a existing row, but get a
> new primary key for the copy? I'd then go in an edit the 1 or 2
> additional columns that differ. The duplicate would be in the same
> table as the original.
>
> This would save me a bunch of typing. Can it be done?
INSERT INTO mytable SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE pk = 123;
Or something close to that... I suspect if you changed the '*' to the
columns you wanted you could also work in the other columns you want to
change as well...
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