Re: COPY is not working

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY is not working
Date: 2010-05-04 02:51:15
Message-ID: 232.1272941475@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> On 4/30/2010 1:56 AM, Jaime Casanova wrote:
>> ah! this is because COPY doesn't follow inherited tables... should it?

> The TRUNCATE command's behavior was changed in that regard. What
> TRUNCATE did in 8.3 is now TRUNCATE ONLY in 8.4. I don't see a reason
> why COPY should not follow suit.

How about "because it's inappropriate for dump/reload, which is the main
use-case for COPY"? In any case it'd be weird for COPY FROM and COPY TO
to behave differently on this point, but I don't really see how COPY
FROM would do anything intelligent for inheritance.

regards, tom lane

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