Re: Transaction Question - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Masaru Sugawara
Subject Re: Transaction Question
Date
Msg-id 20020506114421.8F09.RK73@sea.plala.or.jp
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In response to Transaction Question  (mark lonsdale <mark@marklonsdale.co.uk>)
List pgsql-novice
On Thu, 02 May 2002 16:38:15 +0100
mark lonsdale <mark@marklonsdale.co.uk> wrote:

> I can see that insert's like
>
>  insert into links select max(link_id) + 1 from agent

select max(link_id) + 1 from agent;

This query works correctly.

>
> seem to work okay, but I want to pull in information from multiple
> tables.. I thought something like this would work..
>
>  insert into links select max(link_id) + 1, a.agent_id, n.node_id from
> links l, agent a, nodes n ;

select max(link_id) + 1, a.agent_id, n.node_id
 from links l, agent a, nodes n ;

But, this one doesn't. It seems to be the reason why the information
couldn't be inserted into "links". For example, you might need to use
GROUP BY clause like the following:

INSERT INTO links
SELECT MAX(a.link_id) + 1, a.agent_id, n.node_id
  FROM agent a, nodes n
 WHERE a.link_id = n.link_id
 GROUP BY a.link_id, a.agent_id, n.node_id;



Regards,
Masaru Sugawara



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