Re: how to insert multiple rows and get the ids back in a temp table (pgplsql)?

On 19 Sep 2010, at 3:43, Bret Green wrote:

> how can I do the following in plpgsql?
>
> insert multiple rows in a table
>
> get the ids (serial) into a temp table (not the client)
>
>
> for one row it will be like this
>
> insert into mytable(mycolumn)values(123)returning id into some_variable;

You can do that for multiple rows just fine, you don't even need plpgsql for that:

development=> \d test
Table "public.test"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
i | integer |

development=> INSERT INTO test (i) select x from generate_series(4, 10) t(x) ret
urning i;
i
----
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(7 rows)

INSERT 0 7

Alban Hertroys

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