Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote: > > > > > why do we agree on a patch, implement it and reject it then? > > would be easier to reject it before actually implementing it ... > > it is quite hard to explain to a customer that something is rejected > > after approval - even if things are written properly ... > > > > > > > That's a good point and I understand the pain. > > Could we maybe do this?: Take the patch as it is now, and if/when we > get the more general syntax we do a little magic under the hood to turn > COPY viewname TO > into > COPY (select * from viewname) TO
We could. But we would do it because we want that behavior on its own, rather than doing it just to support a feature we added in the past. The question is, if we were adding the query syntax _now_, would we want to do views that way? If so, we can add the patch and just fix it up when we get the queries. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
