Re: insert into table from list or array ?

i think that you can try to
create temporary table tmptable(id integer, numbers integer[]);
and
insert into table values (1,array[2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 31, 37,
...]);

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Andreas <maps(dot)on(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is it possible to insert into a table from list or an array ?
>
> Suppose there is a set of numbers that might be IDs of tables within the
> DB.
> To work with them I'd need a temporary table that just holds a single
> column with those numbers.
> Something like
>
> create temporary table tmptable as select id from
> ( 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 31,
> 37, ... );
>
> would be great.
>
> I get those numbers as textfile with 10 numbers per line and devided by
> comma+space as in the sample above, though the comma+space is negotiable if
> this were an issue.
>
> :)
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