From: Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Need magic for inserting in 2 tables
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:14:38 +0200
Message-ID: <4CA9004E.7060106@gmx.net> (raw)
Hi,
I need to insert a lot of basically blank records into a table to be
filled later.
Sounds silly but please bear with me. :)
projects ( project_id, project_name, ... )
companies ( company_id, ... )
departments ( department_id, department )
staff ( staff_id SERIAL, company_fk, department_fk, ... )
company_2_project ( project_fk, company_fk )
staff_2_project ( project_fk, staff_fk, project data, ... )
So with this I can store that company 99 belongs e.g. to project 3, 5 and 42
and staff_id 11, 13, 17 belongs to company 99.
staff_2_project represents the connection of staff members to a project
and holds projectrelated infos.
Now say I have allready 100 companies out of the bigger adress pool
connected to project 42 and I now want to add blank staffers out of
department 40 and 50 linked with this project.
I do step 1:
insert into staff ( company_fk, ..., department_fk )
select company_fk, ..., department_fk
from departments, companies, company_2_project AS c2p
where company_id = c2p.company_fk
and c2p.project_fk = 42
and department_id in ( 40, 50 );
step 2 would be to link those new blank staff records to project 42 by
inserting a record into staff_2_project for every new staff_id.
How can I find the new staff_ids while making sure I don't insert ids
from other sessions?
Is there an elegant way in SQL ?
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