Toni Casueps wrote:
>
> I have a set of tables with one-to-many relationships between them:
>
> T1 <-->> T2 <-->> T3 <-->> T4
>
> I need to copy some rows of these tables to another set of tables which
> have the same fields.
There's no shortcut.
BEGIN;
INSERT INTO copy_t1 SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE id IN (123, 456);
INSERT INTO copy_t2 SELECT * FROM t2 WHERE t2_t1_ref IN (SELECT id FROM
t1 WHERE id IN (123, 456));
INSERT INTO copy_t3 SELECT * FROM t3 WHERE t3_t2_ref IN (SELECT ... FROM
t2 WHERE ...)
...etc...
COMMIT;
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd