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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Kirill Reshke <[email protected]>
Cc: jian he <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: in BeginCopyTo make materialized view using COPY TO instead of COPY (query).
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:06:53 -0400
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On 2025-03-29 Sa 10:40 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Saturday, March 29, 2025, Kirill Reshke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 at 09:47, jian he
>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >
>     > will use {table_beginscan, table_scan_getnextslot, table_endscan}
>     > to output the data.
>     > but views don't have storage, table_beginscan mechanism won't work.
>     >
>     > so i don't think this is possible for view.
>
>     Well... So you are saying that let us have inconsistent features
>     because of how things are implemented in core... I don't sure I'm
>     buying that, but whatever, let's hear some other voices from the
>     community. My argument is that while we are working on it, perhaps we
>     should revise certain implementation specifics along the way. However,
>     this is merely my opinion on the matter.
>
>
>  At present copy {table} to only exists to support pg_dump. It is not 
> marketed as a general purpose export facility.


*ahem*


What is your evidence for that proposition? If this were true we would 
not support CSV mode, which pg_dump does not use. It might have 
limitations, but its use goes far beyond just pg_dump, both in theory 
and practice.


cheers


andew


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Andrew Dunstan
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