> Hi,
>
> I have the following kind of sql structure, in 3 levels:
>
> -----------------------
> create table documents (
> id serial,
> name varchar(50),
> primary key (id)
> );
>
> create table lines (
> id serial,
> name varchar(50),
> document_id integer,
> primary key (id),
> foreign key (document_id) references documents (id)
> );
>
> create table line_details (
> id serial,
> name varchar(50),
> line_id integer,
> primary key (id),
> foreign key (line_id) references lines (id)
> );
> -----------------------
>
> I'd like to be able to "duplicate" a document, with all of its lines and
> line details.
>
> Is there any easy way to do that with Postgresql? The only solution I
> can think of at the moment is to loop through all lines and line
> details, and replace foreign keys properly with values fetch with
> "currval". It should work just fine, but I was wondering if some
> advanced features of Postgresql could help in this situation.
You will have to do that in 3 steps (one for each table), but looping may
not be necessary - just use INSERT ... SELECT ... syntax. Something like
INSERT INTO Lines SELECT FROM Lines WHERE document_id = OLD_ID;
But it depends on primary keys in the Lines and Line_details tables - if
the primary keys are composed (and the document_id is part of them) then
there is no problem with duplicities. Otherwise you'll have to solve it
somehow, and looping may be necessary.
Tomas