Re: INSERT... WHERE

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Robert James <srobertjames(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On 1/13/13, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > 2013/1/14 Robert James <srobertjames(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> >> I have a lot of VALUES I want to INSERT. But only a subset of them -
> >> only those that meet a JOIN criteria involving another table.
> >>
> >> I could INSERT them into a temp table, and then do a SELECT INTO. But
> >> do I need to do that? Is there any way to do a INSERT... VALUES ...
> >> WHERE...
> >
> > INSERT INTO ... SELECT is what you are looking for.
> >
> > Simple example:
> >
> > CREATE TABLE seltest (id INT);
> > INSERT INTO seltest (id) SELECT 1;
>
>
> Thanks. But how do I do that where I have many literals? Something like:
>
> INSERT INTO seltest (id, a, b) SELECT (1,2,3),(4,5,6),(7,8,9) WHERE b
> IN (SELECT ...)
>
>
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insert into seltest (id, a, b) select a from (values (1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6),
...) as t(a, b, c) join t2 on = ...;