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Re: [HACKERS] COPY view

Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor@dunaweb.hu>

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From: Böszörményi Zoltán <zboszor@dunaweb.hu>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Robert Treat" <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, "Hans-Juergen Schoenig" <hs@cybertec.at>, "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us>, "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>, "Karel Zak" <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>, "List pgsql-patches" <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-08-23T06:38:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.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