Re: R: feature proposal ...

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>So why not do what everyone is agreed on now?
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>I wasn't agreed on it ;-)
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>The primary objection I've got is that I think this will be a very
>considerable increment of work for exactly zero increment in
>functionality, compared to being able to copy from a view.  (If you're
>not seeing why, consider that COPY is a utility statement not an
>optimizable statement; you'd have to change that classification, with
>resultant impacts all across the system.)  There are other places
>where the effort could be more usefully spent.
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By "what everyone is agreed on" I meant "copy from a view". ;-)

cheers

andrew