absolutely - the main advantage of the syntax tweak is that you can
add parameters more easily.
best regards,
hans
On 22 Sep 2005, at 21:25, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:31:42AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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