Re: INSERT question

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: sarlav kumar <sarlavk@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-12-13T16:48:14Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
sarlav kumar <sarlavk@yahoo.com> writes:
> Is there a way to write the INSERT as follows?
 
> INSERT into merchant_buyer_country (merchant_id,country,enabled,group_id)  values (1203, 
> (SELECT code FROM country WHERE send IS NOT NULL OR receive IS NOT NULL), 'true',1);
 
> I tried this, but I get the following problem:
> ERROR:  More than one tuple returned by a subselect used as an expression.

INSERT into merchant_buyer_country (merchant_id,country,enabled,group_id) 
  SELECT 1203, code, 'true', 1 FROM country
  WHERE send IS NOT NULL OR receive IS NOT NULL;

			regards, tom lane