st 2. 12. 2020 v 12:55 odesÃlatel Peter Eisentraut < peter.eisentr...@enterprisedb.com> napsal:
> While reading about deprecating and removing various things in other > threads, I was wondering about how deprecated SELECT INTO is. There are > various source code comments about this, but the SELECT INTO reference > page only contains soft language like "recommended". I'm proposing the > attached patch to stick a more explicit deprecation notice right at the > top. > > I also found some gratuitous uses of SELECT INTO in various tests and > documentation (not ecpg or plpgsql of course). Here is a patch to > adjust those to CREATE TABLE AS. > > I don't have a specific plan for removing top-level SELECT INTO > altogether, but there is a nontrivial amount of code for handling it, so > there would be some gain if it could be removed eventually. > +1 Pavel
