On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Marten Feldtmann wrote:
> Indraneel Majumdar schrieb:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > how can I insert a record after checking whether one of the fields has a
> > certain value or not? eg:
> >
> > if table(col1)='value' insert into table values (x,x,x)
> >
> > I am using perl interface. Is there any way to define a function to take
> > table name as an argument? (eg: select * from $table) I tried but this
> > gave an error (so I'm using perl to pass the real tablename for each
> > query)
> >
>
> insert into table select ... where col1 = 'value'
>
this is working but I am inserting values directly and not by select. eg:
insert into table values(x,x,x)
and not
insert into table select * from table2
the former is not working.
\Indraneel
>
> MF
>
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