How to execute a query multiple times in PostgreSQL

Question

What is the PostgreSQL equivalent to the TSQL “go” statement?

I have a query to insert a record into a table

--something like this

Insert into employee values(1,'Mike');
GO n;

I want this query to be executed n number of times.

Answer 1

This is possible without reverting to PL/pgSQL:

Insert into employee (id, name)
select 1,'Mike'
from generate_series(1,3);

Or if you want different IDs for each row:

Insert into employee (id, name)
select id,'Mike'
from generate_series(1,3) as t(id);