Re: trouble with a join on OS X

Kirk Wythers wrote:
>
> On Feb 2, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Kirk Wythers <kwythers(at)umn(dot)edu> writes:
>>> On Feb 2, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Luke Lonergan wrote:
>>>> Now he's got to worry about how to page through 8GB of results in
>>>> something less than geological time with the space bar ;-)
>>
>>> I actually have no intention of paging through the results, but
>>> rather need to use the query to get the results into a new table with
>>> UPDATE, so that a GIS system can do some interpolations with subsets
>>> of the results.
>>
>> Er ... then why are you SELECTing the data at all? You can most likely
>> get it done much faster if the data stays inside the database engine.
>>
>>
>
> 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.

INSERT INTO foo SELECT * FROM BAR JOIN baz USING (id)

Joshua D. Drake

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