Re: select into...

Many thanks, Scott.

Tena Sakai

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Mon 3/16/2009 4:12 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] select into...

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I want to execute a query below:
>
>   select *
>     into my_table
>     from old_table
>    where (some_condition);
>
> The trouble is that the manual page states that this would
> "SELECT INTO creates a new table and fills it with data
> computed by a query."
>
> What I want is to append my_table.  Is there any way to
> get postgres to do what I want done?

You want insert:

insert into my_table select yada from old_table;