Re: moving content of a table to another table

The way I usually do it is:

COPY old_table TO '/tmp/old_table.sql' ;

<create new table>

COPY new_table FROM '/tmp/old_table.sql' ;

Not sure how this would handle your serial columns.

Cheers,

-p

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From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of roy simkes
Sent: Thursday, 31 August 2006 23:05
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [NOVICE] moving content of a table to another table

Hi,

I'm curious if there is a way to move content of a table to another table? I
do not like to create lot's of insert commands and then delete them. I'm
sure there is an easy way to do this. But I would also like to know if there
can be any problem with a coloumn type of serial. While moving the tables
pgsql will change the serial to the next value of the sequence or will it
leave as it is, and when I reach hat number I will have a problem about
duplicate entry

Thanks.

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