Re: Elegant copy of a row using PL

On 1/16/07, richard lavoie <richard_lavoie@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi!
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>
> I'm not sure about the English terminology for that so I'm sorry if I made a
> mistake on the subject and on this message.
>
> I've a table with 50 colums. I want to copy a certain row using PL and change only 2 values. The way to do it with
insertis to long. Is there any other elegant way? 

the basic methodology is to:

insert select into a scratch table;
update scratch table;
insert select back into real_table;

scratch can be a persistent table (remember to truncate it) or a temp
table.  if it is a temp, remember to create it before you call your pl
for the first time in a session.

merlin