Tried it, but it still I am not inserting data into the table. On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 8:14 AM, tango ward <tangowar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh yeah, my bad. I missed that FROM in SELECT. Sorry, i'll update the code > now. > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 8:04 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> > wrote: > >> On 05/23/2018 04:58 PM, tango ward wrote: >> >>> Thanks masters for responding again. >>> >>> I've tried running the code: >>> >>> INSERT INTO my_table(name, age) >>> SELECT name, age >>> WHERE NOT EXISTS(SELECT name FROM my_table WHERE name= name) >>> >> >> The first thing I see is that: >> >> SELECT name, age >> >> is not being selected from anywhere, for example: >> >> SELECT name, age FROM some_table. >> >> The second thing I see is why not use ON CONFLICT? >> >> >>> >>> this doesn't give me error but it doesn't insert data either. >>> >>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 3:35 AM, Adrian Klaver < >>> adrian.kla...@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>> wrote: >>> >>> On 05/23/2018 10:00 AM, David G. Johnston wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday, May 23, 2018, tango ward <tangowar...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:tangowar...@gmail.com> <mailto:tangowar...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:tangowar...@gmail.com>>> wrote: >>> >>> I just want to ask if it's possible to insert data if it's >>> not >>> existing yet. >>> >>> >>> This seems more like a philosophical question than a technical >>> one... >>> but the answer is yes: >>> >>> CREATE TABLE test_t (a varchar, b varchar, c integer); >>> INSERT INTO test_t >>> SELECT '1', '2', 3 WHERE false; --where false causes the data >>> to effectively "not exist" >>> >>> As for ON CONFLICT: conflicts can only happen between things >>> that exist. >>> >>> >>> Well that made my day:) >>> >>> >>> David J. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- Adrian Klaver >>> adrian.kla...@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Adrian Klaver >> adrian.kla...@aklaver.com >> > >
