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Re: R: feature proposal ...

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at>
Cc: Paolo Magnoli <pmagnoli@systemevolution.it>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, eg@cybertec.at
Date: 2005-09-21T15:31:42Z
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <postgres@cybertec.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.

			regards, tom lane