>
> Please CC me, I am not subscribed.
>
> An imaginary SQL statement
> INSERT INTO table FETCH ... FROM cursor;
> looks almost the same as currently available
> INSERT INTO table SELECT ...;
>
> I tried it because I needed to insert a row in a table
> after I DELETEd a set of rows, something like this:
>
> BEGIN;
> DECLARE total CURSOR
> FOR SELECT=20
> SUBSTR(datetime,1,7)||'-01 00:00:00' as month,
> client,
> SUM(money)
> FROM stat
> WHERE SUBSTR(datetime,1,7)=3D'2003-10'
> GROUP BY month,client;
> DELETE FROM stat WHERE SUBSTR(datetime,1,7)=3D'2003-10';
> INSERT INTO stat FETCH ALL FROM total;
> COMMIT;
>
> but it does not work, chokes on FETCH ALL.
>
> I want to sum up all the money by month, delete all the rows
> (possibly thousands of them) and insert one row per client
> with monthly totals.
>
> Obviously I cannot swap order of INSERT and DELETE here.
>
> I hesitate to post this to pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org,
> do I have to? ;)
>
> --=20
> Alexander Vlasenko
>
Using a temporary table to buffer the result comes to mind.
Regards, Christoph