Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> On 4/30/2010 1:56 AM, Jaime Casanova wrote:
>> ah! this is because COPY doesn't follow inherited tables... should it?
> The TRUNCATE command's behavior was changed in that regard. What
> TRUNCATE did in 8.3 is now TRUNCATE ONLY in 8.4. I don't see a reason
> why COPY should not follow suit.
How about "because it's inappropriate for dump/reload, which is the main
use-case for COPY"? In any case it'd be weird for COPY FROM and COPY TO
to behave differently on this point, but I don't really see how COPY
FROM would do anything intelligent for inheritance.
regards, tom lane