Re: very basic question

something like this should work, if I understand your question correctly:

insert into usrs (login, gen_id) select 'fancy_login_name', gen_id from gens where gen = 'JR';

I hope, it helps...

Dima

Dennis Gearon wrote:
> If I have the following two tables, (very much shortened for your convenience):
>
> CREATE TABLE Gens(
> gen_id serial NOT NULL CONSTRAINT PK_Gens1 PRIMARY KEY,
> gen varchar(16) DEFAULT 'none' NOT NULL, --
> CONSTRAINT UC_Gens1 UNIQUE(gen));
> COMMENT ON COLUMN Gens.gen_id IS 'integer surr primary key';
> COMMENT ON COLUMN Gens.gen IS 'examples are JR, SR, I, III, etc';
>
> CREATE TABLE Usrs(
> usr_id serial NOT NULL CONSTRAINT PK_Usrs1 PRIMARY KEY,
> login varchar(32) NOT NULL,
> gen_id int4 NOT NULL,
> CONSTRAINT FK_A_Usr_Has_A_Generation_2 FOREIGN KEY (gen_id) REFERENCES Gens (gen_id),
> CONSTRAINT UC_Usrs1 UNIQUE(login));
> COMMENT ON COLUMN Usrs.usr_id IS 'integer surr primary key';
>
>
> How do I insert values into Usrs that use the values of Gens.gen_id for referential integrity,
> but by referencing the Gen.gen field?
>
> Say I wanted to insert (in one statement):
> 'fancy_login_name' for Usrs.login
> *and*
> the Gen.gen_id for 'JR' in Usrs.gen_id
> *assuming*
> that 'JR' exists in Gen.gen.
>
> Thank you very much. In MySQL I would have used PHP to find the Gen.gen_id and then inserted
> that, (whether that was the right way, I don't know)
>
> OK, I'm a newbie to USING databases, I'm fair at designing them, I think.
>
>
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