Re: Save query results to new table

On 10/27/2016 4:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> It's been several years since I worked with postgres so I tried
> searching
> the web for the correct syntax to save query results to a new table, but
> without results.
>
> I'm running postgresql-9.5.4 here. The query extracts 28162 rows from a
> table of 122365 rows. I thought 'save table as' would do the job but have
> not found the correct syntax to do this.
>
> My query is:
>
> select * from monitor_sites where param = 'Cd' or param = 'Co' or
> param = 'As' or param = 'Hg' or param = 'Zn' or param = 'Pb' or param
> = 'Cr' or
> param = 'Cu';
>
> If you point me to the appropriate page in the 9.5.x manual I'll
> figure it

CREATE TABLE newtable AS SELECT ...

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-createtableas.html

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