Re: Insert using a subselect?

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Does PostgreSQL supports doing an insert with a subselect as it's value?
> Something like:
>
> insert into hearn_dates (date)
> values ((select distinct merge_date from hearn));
>
> The error I am getting is:
> ERROR:  More than one tuple returned by a subselect used as an expression.
>

Presumably you slect distinct is returing more than one value/tuple.

Run it by hand and see what it returns.


Jason