Re: Create an empty copy of another table

Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>

From: Andrew McMillan <Andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
To: "'pgsql-novice@postgresql.org'" <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-06-28T13:48:12Z
Lists: pgsql-novice
Andrew McMillan wrote:
> 
> Thomas Weholt wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do I create a new empty table that`s a copy of an allready existing one?
> > I need a way of putting the result of a select-statement into a temporary
> > table that`s an exact copy of the table it`s derived from and I`m not sure
> > how to do this. Obviously. I am just using one table to query at the time.
> >
> > Thomas
> 
>         CREATE TABLE t2 AS SELECT * FROM t1;

Woops!

	CREATE TABLE t2 AS SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE pkey != pkey;

:-)
				Andrew.

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