Many thanks, Scott.
Tena Sakai
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 3/16/2009 4:12 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] select into...
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I want to execute a query below:
>
> select *
> into my_table
> from old_table
> where (some_condition);
>
> The trouble is that the manual page states that this would
> "SELECT INTO creates a new table and fills it with data
> computed by a query."
>
> What I want is to append my_table. Is there any way to
> get postgres to do what I want done?
You want insert:
insert into my_table select yada from old_table;