On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2010 6:54:09 am Alexander Farber wrote: > > How do you copy a column from table please? > > I'm trying with PostgreSQL 8.1.21/CentOS 5.5: > > > select topic_id from phpbb_topics where forum_id=5 and topic_poster=1 > > and age(to_timestamp(topic_time))>interval '14 days' into old_topics; > > psql:clean-forum.sql:6: ERROR: syntax error at or near "into" at > character > > 124 psql:clean-forum.sql:6: LINE 1: ... > > age(to_timestamp(topic_time))>interval '14 days' into old_t... > > > Of course "select ... into" doesn't work, but how should I do it? > > Can't find in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/ > > > > Thank you > > Alex > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-insert.html > Short answer is insert into my_temp_table select a,b from mytable; Or as Gabriele said, CREATE TEMP TABLE mytable AS SELECT should also work. Regards, -- gurjeet.singh @ EnterpriseDB - The Enterprise Postgres Company http://www.EnterpriseDB.com singh.gurj...@{ gmail | yahoo }.com Twitter/Skype: singh_gurjeet Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device
