Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote: > >It's ugly because you are forcing the system to parse something that > >was already parsed. > > definitely an argument for dropping the view stuff ...
On the other hand, it's quite possible that this could be made to work _without_ doing black magic (which would be OK by me). > >On the other hand I don't see why you are arguing in favor of a useless > >feature whose coding is dubious; you can have _the same thing_ with nice > >code and no discussion. > > what are you referring to? The fact that the direct "copy view" feature is just syntactic sugar over "copy (select * from view)". The latter we can have without discussion -- from me, that is :-) -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
