Re: [HACKERS] COPY view

Hi,

> Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
>> On Tuesday 22 August 2006 16:10, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> As I see it, we've effectively got a patch that was rejected once,
>>> and Bruce wants to apply it anyway because no replacement has been
>>> forthcoming.
>
>> Well, unless someone is going to commit to doing it the other way, it
>> seems
>> the guy who actually codes something offers a better solution than
>> handwaving... people have also had plenty of time to come up with a
>> replacement if that's what they really wanted.
>
> The patch submitter has neither provided an updated patch nor defended
> his original submission as being the right thing. If he doesn't take it
> seriously enough to have done any followup, why should the rest of us?
>
> At the moment, with the online-index and updatable-views patches both
> pretty seriously broken, and no sign that the bitmap-index people are
> awake at all, I might take it on myself to fix this one instead of those
> others. But is that what I should be spending my time on in the waning
> days of the 8.2 freeze cycle? Speak now or hold your peace.
>
> regards, tom lane

I am willing to get it up to shape and support
both COPY (select) TO and COPY view TO,
the second is rewritten as SELECT * FROM view.
In fact, I already started.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi