On Tuesday 01 July 2003 11:08 pm, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > INSERT INTO mytable
> > SELECT 'value1', 'value2'
> > WHERE NOT EXISTS
> > (SELECT NULL FROM mytable
> > WHERE mycondition)
>
> Thank you to everyone who helped out on my question. I am trying to
> implement the above solution but I'm having problems getting this to
> work when I want to insert more than one value:
>
> TAL=# create table b (a text primary key, b text);
> NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index 'b_pkey'
> for table 'b'
> CREATE TABLE
> TAL=# insert into b select 'a';
> INSERT 335311 1
> TAL=# insert into b select 'b', select 'b';
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "select" at character 27
>
I don't see what you're trying to do. Why do you have two select ?
RDB
