Re: trouble with a join on OS X

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kirk Wythers <kwythers(at)umn(dot)edu>
Cc: "Luke Lonergan" <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, "Steinar H(dot) Gunderson" <sgunderson(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, " " Gábriel Ákos " " <akos(dot)gabriel(at)i-logic(dot)hu>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: trouble with a join on OS X
Date: 2007-02-03 03:31:17
Message-ID: 26885.1170473477@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Kirk Wythers <kwythers(at)umn(dot)edu> writes:
> The new table needs to be filled with the results of the join. If
> there is a way to do this without a SELECT, please share.

If it's an entirely new table, then you probably want to use INSERT
... SELECT. If what you want is to update existing rows using a join,
you can use UPDATE ... FROM (not standard) or something involving a
sub-select. You'd need to state your problem in some detail to get more
help than that...

regards, tom lane

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