Re: [GENERAL] temporary tables

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to create a temporary table, store some data
> in it then after a while copy the data into another table
> and drop the temporary. I'm not sure exactly how this is
> done. I went to Mr. Momjian's Manual before posting this
> question and found the title of temporary tables at:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/node148.html
> but I was disappointed to find nothing in there.
> Reminded me of when I was looking for info about primary
> keys.

See chapter 8 on combining selects:

SELECT * INTO TEMP newtable FROM oldtable.


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