Hello,
I want to insert new values into target table 'a' from source table 'b', and then update table 'b' with ids from table
'a',somewhat like:
CREATE TABLE a(id SERIAL, name TEXT);
INSERT INTO a (name) VALUES('Jason');
INSERT INTO a (name) VALUES('Peter');
CREATE TABLE b(row_id serial, id INT, name TEXT);
INSERT INTO b (name) VALUES('Jason');
INSERT INTO b (name) VALUES('Peter');
WITH inserted AS (INSERT INTO a (name) SELECT b.name FROM b WHERE b.name = name RETURNING a.id)
UPDATE b SET id = inserted.id FROM inserted WHERE inserted.row_id = b.row_id;
However this would not work for obvious reason:
WHERE inserted.row_id = b.row_id is invalid because RETURNING clause cannot return row_id.
What can be returned are only columns of 'a', but they are insufficient to identify matching records of 'b'.
So the question is - what to put in WHERE clause to match RETURNING with rows being inserted from 'b'?
Thanks!
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Aleksandr Furmanov
