Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: > Alvaro Herrera írta: > But COPY view (col1, col2, ...) TO may still be > useful even if the COPY (SELECT ...) (col1, col2, ...) TO > is pointless. [1]
Hum, I don't understand what you're saying here -- are you saying that you can't do something with the first form, that you cannot do with the second? > >It's ugly because you are forcing the system to parse something that > >was already parsed. > > Well, to be true to the word, during parsing COPY view TO > the parser never saw SELECT * FROM view. Hmm! The COPY view stuff stopped working when I changed back the "relation" case. Your patch changed it so that instead of flowing as RangeVar all the way to the copy.c code, the parser changed it into a "select * from %s" query, and then stashed the resulting Query node into the "query" %case. (So what was happening was that the Relation case was never %used). I reverted this. > >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. > > Because of [1] and because Mr. Schoenig's arguments > about changing schemas. Yeah, that argument makes sense to me as well. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
