Re: Copying a column into a temp. table

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On Friday 01 October 2010 6:54:09 am Alexander Farber wrote:
> > How do you copy a column from table please?
> > I'm trying with PostgreSQL 8.1.21/CentOS 5.5:
>

> > select topic_id from phpbb_topics where forum_id=5 and topic_poster=1
> > and age(to_timestamp(topic_time))>interval '14 days' into old_topics;
> > psql:clean-forum.sql:6: ERROR: syntax error at or near "into" at
> character
> > 124 psql:clean-forum.sql:6: LINE 1: ...
> > age(to_timestamp(topic_time))>interval '14 days' into old_t...
>

> > Of course "select ... into" doesn't work, but how should I do it?
> > Can't find in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/
> >
> > Thank you
> > Alex
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-insert.html
>

Short answer is
insert into my_temp_table select a,b from mytable;

Or as Gabriele said, CREATE TEMP TABLE mytable AS SELECT should also work.

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