From: Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>
To: Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Normalising an existing table - how?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:45:08 +0200
Message-ID: <40DB4B64.5080101@sharp.fm> (raw)
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Frank Bax wrote:
> Do all three steps in one command:
>
> create table newtable as (select key1, key2, money from oldtable);
How would I put the primary key of each row in newtable back into
oldtable? Also, newtable already exists and contains data - I need to
add normalised data to an already partially normalised database.
Regards,
Graham
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