Got it. Thank you Tom!
Scott Marlowe writes:
That's what I thought, but
create temp table xyz as select * from abc on commit drop;
still fails on 8.3. Was this fixed in 8.4 or is my syntax wonky?
Your syntax is wonky -- switch the clause order.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/stati
Scott Marlowe writes:
> That's what I thought, but
> create temp table xyz as select * from abc on commit drop;
> still fails on 8.3. Was this fixed in 8.4 or is my syntax wonky?
Your syntax is wonky -- switch the clause order.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-createtableas.html
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Emi Lu writes:
>> I googled to find that "on commit drop" does not support:
>
>> (a) create temp table as select * from table1 where 1<>2;
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2005-09/msg00153.php
>
> Ah, the pitfalls of believing that the
Emi Lu writes:
> I googled to find that "on commit drop" does not support:
> (a) create temp table as select * from table1 where 1<>2;
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2005-09/msg00153.php
Ah, the pitfalls of believing that the first google hit you get
is authoritative. Didn't you not
Good morning,
I googled to find that "on commit drop" does not support:
(a) create temp table as select * from table1 where 1<>2;
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2005-09/msg00153.php
If table1 has complex table structure, grammar(a) will save lots of
codes - col1 varchar(1), col2, ...
Thanks much Alvaro. Didn't know I could do that.
For returning the matches, I am planning to run a separate count(*)
query with the original WHERE clause minus joins that are purely for
pulling addnl attributes from related entities. Only if this query
returns a positive count, I will run the quer
