Re: R: feature proposal ...

Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at> writes:
> Paolo Magnoli wrote:
>> Can't you just use a view?

> no because a new is not a heap ...

I think Paolo's idea is much better than munging the syntax of COPY,
though.  Fixing COPY so that you *could* copy from a view would provide
all the desired functionality without any syntactic warts.
        regards, tom lane