Sorry. I forgot some columns:
 insert into tempclass (pkid, depart, sessionid, instrid, 
classeq, facility, schedule)
 Select cl.pkid, cl.depart, cl.sessionid, cl.instrid,
 cl.classseq,(select facility from esloc where esloc.pkid = cl.locationid) as
 facility, cl.schedule from esclass cl where cl.pkid in (14507,14508)
2010/11/25 Carla 
<cgourofino@hotmail.com> Try to explicit the column names. Something like:
insert into tempclass (pkid, depart, sessionid, instrid)
Select cl.pkid, cl.depart, cl.sessionid, cl.instrid,
 cl.classseq,(select facility from esloc where esloc.pkid = cl.locationid) as
 facility, cl.schedule from esclass cl where cl.pkid in (14507,14508)
2010/11/24 John Fabiani 
<johnf@jfcomputer.com>Hi,
  I have a strange issue that is mostly likely me not understanding something.
 I always thought that an insert statement would accept any select statement.
 I'm guessing I am wrong.
 I have created a temporary table ("tempclass") that is exact match to an
 existing table ('esclass').
 When I attempt to do the following
 insert into tempclass Select cl.pkid, cl.depart, cl.sessionid, cl.instrid,
 cl.classseq,(select facility from esloc where esloc.pkid = cl.locationid) as
 facility, cl.schedule from esclass cl where cl.pkid in (14507,14508)
 I get the following error:
 ERROR:  column "schedule" is of type date but expression is of type character
 varying
 LINE 1: ... cl.depart, cl.sessionid, cl.instrid, cl.classseq,(select fa...
                                                             ^
 HINT:  You will need to rewrite or cast the expression.
 The error makes no sense to me.  But most important if I just run the select
 statement it works perfectly.
 Like I said the table "tempclass" (a temporary) is a dup of table "esclass" so
 none of it makes sense.  Of course I did say I'm missing something.
 So why isn't the select statement working with the insert?
 Johnf
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