Re: Conditional SQL query

I finally got it to work. you can't use the parentheses. eg:

insert into table select x,x,x where col1 = 'value';
and not
insert into table select (x,x,x) where col1 = 'value';

the latter gives a
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "where"
I am using PostgreSQL-7.0.2

Now I have one more problem. How do I insert only once if value does not
exist? eg:

insert into table once select x,x,x where not col1='value'

Thanks,
Indraneel

On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Cristóvão B. B. Dalla Costa wrote:

> > > insert into table select ... where col1 = 'value'
> > >
> >
> > this is working but I am inserting values directly and not by select. eg:
> >
> > insert into table values(x,x,x)
> > and not
> > insert into table select * from table2
> >
>
> insert into table select (x, x, x) where col1 = 'value'
>

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