On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Robert James <srobertja...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 1/13/13, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2013/1/14 Robert James <srobertja...@gmail.com>: > >> I have a lot of VALUES I want to INSERT. But only a subset of them - > >> only those that meet a JOIN criteria involving another table. > >> > >> I could INSERT them into a temp table, and then do a SELECT INTO. But > >> do I need to do that? Is there any way to do a INSERT... VALUES ... > >> WHERE... > > > > INSERT INTO ... SELECT is what you are looking for. > > > > Simple example: > > > > CREATE TABLE seltest (id INT); > > INSERT INTO seltest (id) SELECT 1; > > > Thanks. But how do I do that where I have many literals? Something like: > > INSERT INTO seltest (id, a, b) SELECT (1,2,3),(4,5,6),(7,8,9) WHERE b > IN (SELECT ...) > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > insert into seltest (id, a, b) select a from (values (1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), ...) as t(a, b, c) join t2 on = ...;
