Re: R: feature proposal ...

From: Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <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 10:36:21
Message-ID: 1127385381.3635.141.camel@petra
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On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:31 -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.

Well, I will probably help Juergen with the implementation. It seems
that fetch data from VIEW is possible by portal stuff.

Tom, do you think that there's any other (better) way how we can
implement it?

Karel

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