Re: [SQL] HOW DO I...

Hello,

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, John C Cusick wrote:

> In other words, if I do a:
> select * into tblB from tblA where attrN like 'xxx';
>
> and both table structures are identical I get a
> ERROR: Relation 'tblB' already exists

Correct, the 'select into...' statement attempts to create the table, not
just insert rows.

I had this problem on a different system (which I haven't tried to do in
pgsql), where the solution was:

insert into tbl1
select * from tbl2 where this = that

I *think* you could declare a value list as in a normal insert. I also
think that this is SQL, not something specific to that db system, but I
may be wrong.

Regards,

Mark.
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