immediate set values

From: Gregory Seidman <gss+pg(at)cs(dot)brown(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: immediate set values
Date: 2002-05-19 21:15:05
Message-ID: 20020519171505.A28751@jamaica.cs.brown.edu
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I'd like to insert into a table several pairs of values where the first
value does not change. Rather than numerous INSERT statements, I think
there should be a way to insert from a select with immediate values, but I
just can't figure it out. What I'd like:

INSERT INTO mytable
SELECT 1, *
FROM (1,2,3,4)

...which would result in inserting the pairs

1,1
1,2
1,3
1,4

Is there some clean way of doing this, or do I really need multiple
INSERTs?

--Greg

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