Re: [GENERAL] How to do this in SQL?

>Let's say I had a table...
>CREATE TABLE book (
> author oid,
> name text );
>and...
>CREATE TABLE author (
> name text );
>
>and I wanted to create a book pointing to author with name 'Tolstoy'. I
>want to do something like...
>
>INSERT INTO book(name,author) values('War and Peace',
> (SELECT oid FROM author WHERE name = 'Tolstoy'));
>
>but this doesn't work. What is the correct syntax?
>

try \h insert in psql for a description of the correct syntax.

Your query becomes:

INSERT INTO book(author,name)
SELECT oid,'War and Peace'
FROM author
WHERE name='Tolstoy';

Stuart.

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