[HACKERS] is there a reason we can't copy from a view?

[Josh Berkus]

... other than it just got forgotten?

dolszewski=# create view meh as select * from pg_tables;
CREATE VIEW
dolszewski=# copy meh to stdout;
ERROR:  cannot copy from view "meh"
HINT:  Try the COPY (SELECT ...) TO variant.
dolszewski=# copy (select * from meh) to stdout;
pg_catalogpg_statisticpostgres\Ntff
pg_catalogpg_typepostgres\Ntff

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