Re: SELECT INTO deprecation

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SELECT INTO deprecation
Date: 2020-12-02 23:54:39
Message-ID: X8gpP9GL7R5AsF3E@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 03:35:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, if we want to kill it let's just do so. The negative language in
> the reference page has been there since (at least) 7.1, so people can
> hardly say they didn't see it coming.

+1. I got to wonder about the impact when migrating applications
though. SELECT INTO has a different meaning in Oracle, but SQL server
creates a new table like Postgres.
--
Michael

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