Re: COPY view

Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:

>
> why do we agree on a patch, implement it and reject it then?
> would be easier to reject it before actually implementing it ...
> it is quite hard to explain to a customer that something is rejected
> after approval - even if things are written properly ...
>
>


That's a good point and I understand the pain.

Could we maybe do  this?: Take the patch as it is now, and if/when we
get the more general syntax we do a little magic under the hood to turn
  COPY viewname TO
into
 COPY (select * from viewname) TO


just a thought

cheers

andrew