[postgis-users] How to create table new_table as select * from old_table

[Robert W. Burgholzer]

Sorry for the sentence fragments. I meant to day:

"This might not really be a good way to do it, and I left out some variagbles 
at the end of the insert into geometry_columns that appear to be 
auto-generated, but I don;t know their significance."

>===== Original Message From PostGIS Users Discussion 
<postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net> =====
>This might not really be a good way to do it, and I left out some
>
>-- Create a new geometry table entry:
> insert into geometry_columns
>(f_table_catalog,f_table_schema,f_table_name,f_geometry_column,coord_dimensio
n
>,srid,type) select
>b.f_table_catalog,b.f_table_schema,'new_table',b.f_geometry_column,b.coord_di
m
>ension,b.srid,b.type from geometry_columns as b where f_table_name =
>'old_table';
>
>-- Insert your data:
>create table new_table as select * from old_table;
>
>This seemed to work on my machine.
>
>Good Luck,
>
>Robert
>
>>===== Original Message From Konstantin Tokar <tokar at tokar.ru>, PostGIS Users
>Discussion <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net> =====
>>Hi
>>
>>How to execute inquiry of type
>>
>>create table new_table as select * from old_table;
>>
>>old_table - preliminary created table, with a column geom. This column
>>is copied in new_table, but the description in geometry_columns for
>>new_table is not created. What it is necessary to make that it has
>>appeared in geometry_columns?
>>
>>--
>> Konstantin Tokar
>>
>>
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>Robert W. Burgholzer
>rburghol at veetee dot edu
>History of Nutrition: "Buddha probably consumed a high-carb diet."
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Robert W. Burgholzer
rburghol at veetee dot edu
History of Nutrition: "Buddha probably consumed a high-carb diet."