From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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To: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Williams, Travis L, NPONS" <tlw(at)att(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: multiple insert into's (may be NEWBIE question) |
Date: | 2003-08-05 19:42:00 |
Message-ID: | 20030805124037.K66331-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Williams, Travis L, NPONS wrote:
>
> > I have a table (lets say a,text b,text) and I want to insert the data
> > jim,jimmy and trav,travis can I do this with 1 insert into statement
> > instead of 2?
>
> Not with the current implementation of insert. There's been some
> discussion of adding the multiple tuple insert seen in other databases,
> but I don't think anyone's actually done it or even agreed on exactly how
> to do it. I'm not sure if SQL 3 covers this, it seems like it hints at
> it, but I can't read that stuff all that well most of the time.
>
> I don't think there's a way right now though, without using some form of
> copy.
Well, you can do it with insert ... select and union.
insert into tab
select 'jim', 'jimmy'
union
select 'trav', 'travis';
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