Didn't know if it would be any faster.. Travis
-----Original Message----- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:00 PM To: PgSQL General ML Subject: Re: [GENERAL] multiple insert into's (may be NEWBIE question) On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:42, Stephan Szabo wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, scott.marlowe wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Williams, Travis L, NPONS wrote: > > > > > I have a table (lets say a,text b,text) and I want to insert the data > > > jim,jimmy and trav,travis can I do this with 1 insert into statement > > > instead of 2? > > > > Not with the current implementation of insert. There's been some > > discussion of adding the multiple tuple insert seen in other databases, > > but I don't think anyone's actually done it or even agreed on exactly how > > to do it. I'm not sure if SQL 3 covers this, it seems like it hints at > > it, but I can't read that stuff all that well most of the time. > > > > I don't think there's a way right now though, without using some form of > > copy. > > Well, you can do it with insert ... select and union. > > insert into tab > select 'jim', 'jimmy' > union > select 'trav', 'travis'; But the bottom line question is "why do it it in the 1st place?". Multiple INSERT commands works like a peach, as does COPY from stdin (thanks again, Jason). -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
