How to use a SQL for loop to insert rows into database?

Question

I\'m using Postgres, and I have a large number of rows that need to be inserted into the database, that differ only in terms of an integer that is incremented. Forgive what

Answer 1

Afaik, you can't write a loop directly as SQL, you'd have to create a stored procedure to do it.

This will do though (but someone can probably make it cleaner)

INSERT INTO articles WITH RECURSIVE i AS
(
 SELECT 1 x
  UNION ALL
 SELECT x + 1
  FROM i
 WHERE x < 10000000 
)
 SELECT x
 FROM i;