According to the Redshift WITH Clause documentation, you can use a WITH clause with a INSERT INTO...SELECT
statement. However when testing this, I am getting the below error. Is this not possible, or do I have the syntax wrong?
CREATE TABLE TestCTEInsert (SomeTimestamp TIMESTAMP);
WITH CTE AS
(SELECT GETDATE() as SomeTimestamp)
INSERT INTO TestCTEInsert
(SomeTimestamp) SELECT SomeTimestamp from CTE;
ERROR: 42601: syntax error at or near "insert"
Interestingly, it does support inserting into a new table i.e.
WITH CTE AS
(SELECT GETDATE() as SomeTimestamp)
INSERT SomeTimestamp INTO NewTable
SELECT SomeTimestamp from CTE;
The command completed successfully (1 rows affected)
EDIT: Just to confirm, I get the same error when using an INTEGER
column rather than TIMESTAMP
:
CREATE TABLE TestCTE (SomeInt INTEGER);
WITH CTE AS
(SELECT 1 as SomeInt)
INSERT INTO TestCTEInsert
SELECT SomeInt from CTE;
ERROR: 42601: syntax error at or near "insert"
Try putting the CTE in the insert (not sure if that beats the point)
INSERT INTO TestCTEInsert
WITH CTE AS
(SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as SomeTimestamp)
SELECT SomeTimestamp from CTE;