From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: insert into table from list or array ?
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:14:28 +0200
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Hello
2010/10/18 Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net>:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to insert into a table from list or an array ?
>
yes, it's possible
INSERT INTO tmptab
SELECT v
FROM unnest(string_to_array('1,2,4,2,1',',')) g(v)
Regards
Pavel Stehule
> Suppose there is a set of numbers that might be IDs of tables within the DB.
> To work with them I'd need a temporary table that just holds a single column
> with those numbers.
> Something like
>
> create temporary table tmptable as select id from
> ( 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 31,
> 37, ... );
>
> would be great.
>
> I get those numbers as textfile with 10 numbers per line and devided by
> comma+space as in the sample above, though the comma+space is negotiable if
> this were an issue.
>
> :)
>
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