Re: COPY view

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:
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> >
> > why do we agree on a patch, implement it and reject it then?
> > would be easier to reject it before actually implementing it ...
> > it is quite hard to explain to a customer that something is rejected
> > after approval - even if things are written properly ...
> >
> >
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> That's a good point and I understand the pain.
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> Could we maybe do this?: Take the patch as it is now, and if/when we
> get the more general syntax we do a little magic under the hood to turn
> COPY viewname TO
> into
> COPY (select * from viewname) TO

We could. But we would do it because we want that behavior on its own,
rather than doing it just to support a feature we added in the past.

The question is, if we were adding the query syntax _now_, would we want
to do views that way? If so, we can add the patch and just fix it up
when we get the queries.

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