From: Michael Kleiser <mkl@webde-ag.de>
To: Geoff Richards <geoffr@gbdirect.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: MySQL-style "create temporary table foo select ..."
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:07:46 +0200
Message-ID: <40FE86C2.8080903@webde-ag.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040721144949.GA23820@gbdirect.co.uk>
References: <20040721144949.GA23820@gbdirect.co.uk>
create temporary table tmp_foo AS select * from foo;
Geoff Richards schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I've got some code that currently uses MySQL, and it copies an existing
> table into a temporary one like so:
>
> create temporary table tmp_foo select * from foo;
>
> That creates 'tmp_foo' with the same columns as 'foo', which is
> very convenient. I can't seem to find any reference to how to do
> that with Postgres (and I'd like if possible to ditch MySQL).
>
> Just wondering if anyone has ideas about how to do this? I'd like
> to avoid having to work up a table definition to define the temp
> table's columns.
>
> Or maybe I could do some sort of trick with the system catalog tables
> to get the column information in a convenient form?
>
> cheers,
> geoff
>
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