extend INSERT by 'INSERT INTO table FETCH ... FROM cursor' syntax - Mailing list pgsql-sql

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An imaginary SQL statement
INSERT INTO table FETCH ... FROM cursor;
looks almost the same as currently available
INSERT INTO table SELECT ...;

I tried it because I needed to insert a row in a table
after I DELETEd a set of rows, something like this:

BEGIN;
DECLARE total CURSOR
 FOR SELECT
  SUBSTR(datetime,1,7)||'-01 00:00:00' as month,
  client,
  SUM(money)
 FROM stat
 WHERE SUBSTR(datetime,1,7)='2003-10'
 GROUP BY month,client;
DELETE FROM stat WHERE SUBSTR(datetime,1,7)='2003-10';
INSERT INTO stat FETCH ALL FROM total;
COMMIT;

but it does not work, chokes on FETCH ALL.

I want to sum up all the money by month, delete all the rows
(possibly thousands of them) and insert one row per client
with monthly totals.

Obviously I cannot swap order of INSERT and DELETE here.

I hesitate to post this to pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
do I have to? ;)

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Alexander Vlasenko