copying rows

Walt Bigelow <walt@stimpy.com>

From: Walt Bigelow <walt@stimpy.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-08-25T22:38:45Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
I have a table that stores spot info for our tape label system.  I want to
be able to copy all records with a specific librarynumber back into the
same table, but with a different librarynumber.

Something similar to this (which of course does not work)

select into tblspotinfo (librarynumber) values ('6666') select spotnumber,
spottitle, isci, trt, date, timecode from tblspotinfo where librarynumber
= '9988';

Of course it does not like me overloading the select into command like
that.  Is there a simple way to do this that I am just missing?  I just
want to duplicate the data related to librarynumber 9988 and make the new
librarynumber 6666.

Thanks for any insight,
Walt