>
>>>  Allow COPY to output from views
>>>  Another idea would be to allow actual SELECT statements in a COPY.
>>>
>>> Personally I strongly favor the second option as being more flexible
>>> than the first.
>>
>>
>> I second that - allowing arbitrary SELECT statements as a COPY source
>> seems much more powerful and flexible than just supporting COPY FROM
>> VIEW.
>
> Not to be a sour apple or anything but I don't see how any of this is
> needed in the backend since we can easily use Psql to do it, or pretty
> much any other tool.

There is an important difference between a capability in the backend vs
one synthesized in the frontend.

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