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Re: R: feature proposal ...

Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>

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From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig <postgres@cybertec.at>, Paolo Magnoli <pmagnoli@systemevolution.it>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, eg@cybertec.at
Date: 2005-09-22T19:25:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:31:42AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?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.

While I'm all for COPY from views, I think I'd rather have the syntactic
warts than code warts. ISTM that

CREATE TEMP VIEW some_name AS SELECT * FROM table WHERE ...;
COPY some_name TO stdout;

is much uglier than

COPY SELECT * FROM table WHERE ... TO stdout;
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