| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Paolo Magnoli <pmagnoli(at)systemevolution(dot)it>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, eg(at)cybertec(dot)at |
| Subject: | Re: R: feature proposal ... |
| Date: | 2005-09-22 19:25:53 |
| Message-ID: | 20050922192553.GR7630@pervasive.com |
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:31:42AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> > Paolo Magnoli wrote:
> >> Can't you just use a view?
>
> > no because a new is not a heap ...
>
> I think Paolo's idea is much better than munging the syntax of COPY,
> though. Fixing COPY so that you *could* copy from a view would provide
> all the desired functionality without any syntactic warts.
While I'm all for COPY from views, I think I'd rather have the syntactic
warts than code warts. ISTM that
CREATE TEMP VIEW some_name AS SELECT * FROM table WHERE ...;
COPY some_name TO stdout;
is much uglier than
COPY SELECT * FROM table WHERE ... TO stdout;
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