Обсуждение: INSERT with SELECT not working in pgAdmin

Hi guys,

I'm trying to merge two tables to one with INSERT and SELECT commands:

INSERT into c_transactions (timestamp) SELECT entrytimestamp from c_transactions

INSERT into c_transactions (timestamp) SELECT exittimestamp from c_transactions

But getting this error on execution (in pgAdmin): "ERROR: null value in column "id" violates not-null constraint
SQL Status:23502"

What I'm doing wrong or is there another possibility for table merging?

I'm using postgres 8.3.

Thanks.

Hey Stefan,

The sounds like you have a field "id" in you "c_transactions" without
default value (which usually should be nextval('some_sequence'::regclass).
Do you create a sequence for "c_transactions"."id" ?

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Regards,
Dmitriy

Ok I found the solution. I have to use the UPDATE command and not the INSERT:

UPDATE c_transactions SET timestamp = entrytimestamp

and than:

UPDATE c_transactions SET timestamp = exittimestamp WHERE exittimestamp IS NOT NULL