Re: insert into help

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Nicholas I <nicholas(dot)domnic(dot)i(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: insert into help
Date: 2010-09-22 07:35:20
Message-ID: 4C99B1B8.6040607@lelarge.info
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Le 22/09/2010 09:32, Nicholas I a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> i have two tables,
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> *table1
>
> id type serial, name varchar;*
> *--------------------------------------------------------------
> table 2
>
> name varchar;*
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> i want to insert the values of table 2 into table 1, with automatic id's.
>
> insert into table1(select * from table2);
>
> is not working, how can i append the data to table 1 with auto incremented
> or nextval.
>

INSERT INTO table1 (name) SELECT name FROM table2;

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