Re: insert retrieved data into a new table

e-letter wrote on 24.04.2011 22:52:
> Readers,
>
> Is it possible to use the result of a SELECT function to populate a
> new table? The objective is to write the new table for use by gnuplot.
>
> The SELECT function features a mathematical operator such as SUM which
> obtains a value. Is it possible to use the value from this function to
> be entered into the new table. Please advise the relevant parts of the
> documentation to read.
>

CREATE TABLE new_table
AS
SELECT col1, col2, col3
FROM some_table
WHERE ...

This is the syntax I always use, but I have just realized that it not documented in the manual...

Or using SELECT INTO:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-selectinto.html

SELECTcol1, col2, col3
INTO new_table
FROM some_table
WHERE ...

Thomas