From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: INSERT INTO ... SELECT
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:57:05 -0400
Message-ID: <m3k79jhc3y.fsf@chvatal.cbbrowne.com> (raw)
References: <3F376E13.7080907@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when trissl@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Silke Trissl) would write:
> I would like to insert into a table values from a table and user
> defined ones. Here is the example:
>
> I found this statement to insert values from another table:
>
> INSERT INTO test_table (cust_id, cust_name) SELECT id, name from CUSTOMER;
>
> But the test_table has another column, which should have the same
> value for all the customers.
>
> Is there something like
>
> INSERT INTO test_table (int_id, cust_id, cust_name) '1', SELECT id,
> name from CUSTOMER:
>
> and if so, what ist the correct statement? If not, what is an
> alternative to insert a single row at a time?
You're close.
The constant term needs to be inside the SELECT.
Try:
insert into test_table (int_id, cust_id, cust_name)
select '1', id, name from customer;
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