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From Gurjeet Singh
Subject Re: Copying a column into a temp. table
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Msg-id AANLkTinh+kwkg2L8j_HvUhAwc4C98cfMrAoF_K+gG_D5@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Copying a column into a temp. table  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
On Friday 01 October 2010 6:54:09 am Alexander Farber wrote:
> How do you copy a column from table please?
> I'm trying with PostgreSQL 8.1.21/CentOS 5.5:
 
> select topic_id from phpbb_topics where forum_id=5 and topic_poster=1
> and age(to_timestamp(topic_time))>interval '14 days' into old_topics;
> psql:clean-forum.sql:6: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "into" at character
> 124 psql:clean-forum.sql:6: LINE 1: ...
> age(to_timestamp(topic_time))>interval '14 days' into old_t...
 
> Of course "select ... into" doesn't work, but how should I do it?
> Can't find in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/
>
> Thank you
> Alex

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-insert.html

Short answer is
insert into my_temp_table select a,b from mytable;

Or as Gabriele said, CREATE TEMP TABLE mytable AS SELECT should also work.

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