Hi,

>But it is not EASY way:
>1) There may be many columns in a table.
>2) Columns may be added or deleted in the future.
>So maintenance cost of such solution is high,
>and code readability is low.

It is, however, the -only- way... Firebird PSQL does not (yet) have
a "rowtype" variable.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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2009/3/23, Nick Upson <nick.upson@...>:

> insert into tablea (col1, col2, ...) select col1, col2, ... from tablea
> where
>
> 2009/3/23 Valeri Mytinski <valeri.mytinski@...>:
>> I have to copy one (existing) row to another (new) row in the same
>> table within stored procedure.
>> 3 steps needed as I see:
>>
>> 1. Fetch whole row into "record-like" variable or something else.
>> 2. Change PK in "variable".
>> 3. Insert new row with values from "variable".
>>
>> Do you know easy way(s) for this? Or may be special tools for this exists
>> in FB?
>>
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