Title: RE: DB question - Merging data from one table to another.

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I'll throw it by you anyway. 

Say I have 2 tables:

Table1:  With columns number and name

1.1     test1
1.2     test2
1.3     test3
1.4     test4

Table2: With column number and results

1.1     pass
1.2     fail
1.3     pass
1.4     fail

What I would like to do is add a new column to Table2 called name and populate the name from table 1 and add it to table 2.  So, table 2 will look like:

1.1     pass    test1
1.2     fail    test2
1.3     pass    test3
1.4     fail    test4

**NOTE: in same cases if you do a "select name from table1 where number='1.1'" you might get multiple matches, I guess we would need to use "distinct" ?

I've never interacted two tables before, so I'm not even sure where to start with this.

I'm using postgres 7.4.  

Thanks all.

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