

Is this done?


> The pages at http://postgresql.nextpath.com/docs/user/sql-select.htm and
> http://postgresql.nextpath.com/docs/user/sql-insert.htm imply that SELECT
> INTO and INSERT INTO <table> SELECT <query> will work with existing
> tables but in fact it always creates the table and issues an error if
> they already exist.  What needs to be fixed here?  The code or the docs?
> 
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> 
> 


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Mon, 10 May 1999 00:53:13 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] INSERT INTO
Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> Is this done?
> > The pages at http://postgresql.nextpath.com/docs/user/sql-select.htm and
> > http://postgresql.nextpath.com/docs/user/sql-insert.htm imply that SELECT
> > INTO and INSERT INTO <table> SELECT <query> will work with existing
> > tables but in fact it always creates the table and issues an error if
> > they already exist.  What needs to be fixed here?  The code or the docs?

I posted the correction.  I think Tom Lane is putting it into the docs.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@{druid|vex}.net>   |  Democracy is three wolves
http://www.druid.net/darcy/                |  and a sheep voting on
+1 416 424 2871     (DoD#0082)    (eNTP)   |  what's for dinner.

Mon, 10 May 1999 06:46:40 -0400 (EDT)
"D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
Re: [HACKERS] INSERT INTO
> I posted the correction.  I think Tom Lane is putting it into the docs.

Actually, the other tgl has some patches :)

                   - Thomas

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Mon, 10 May 1999 15:26:52 +0000
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Re: [HACKERS] INSERT INTO
"D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net> writes:
> I posted the correction.  I think Tom Lane is putting it into the docs.

Not me --- Lockhart.

I know it's confusing having two guys with the initials tgl on the
same project ;-).

			regards, tom lane

Mon, 10 May 1999 12:49:22 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] INSERT INTO 
Thus spake Tom Lane
> "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net> writes:
> > I posted the correction.  I think Tom Lane is putting it into the docs.
> 
> Not me --- Lockhart.
> 
> I know it's confusing having two guys with the initials tgl on the
> same project ;-).

Sheesh!  We'll just have to get together somewhere all together for a beer
and straighten all this out.  :-)

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@{druid|vex}.net>   |  Democracy is three wolves
http://www.druid.net/darcy/                |  and a sheep voting on
+1 416 424 2871     (DoD#0082)    (eNTP)   |  what's for dinner.

Mon, 10 May 1999 13:54:52 -0400 (EDT)
"D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
Re: [HACKERS] INSERT INTO