Dear Steve Wampler
>I have an application where old records are archived into
>'archive' tables. Occasionally there is a need to copy
>some of these old records into the 'active' table.
>
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source_table(id: bigserial,uname: char,x1: char,x2: char,x3: char,x4: char)
dest_table(id: bigserial,uname: char,x11: char,x21: char,x31: char,x41:
char)
you will do some thing like
insert into dest_table(id,uname,x11,x21) (select id,uname,x1,x2 from
source_table)
Shootback if this helps
Regards,
Vishal Kashyap