Re: COPY example for partial tables

David Fetter wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Please find enclosed a patch (should work for 7.3 and up) that
> illustrates a workaround for using COPY on parts of tables using
> temporary tables.  It's helped me, and it seems popular via a very
> brief and un-scientific poll.

I have attached and applied a modified version of this patch.  I removed
the VACUUM (because this is just an example and does not need to be a
complete solution, e.g. pg_class bloat), and removed the 8.2 mention
because it seemed unnecessary.

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    </para>

    <para>
+    To copy into a file just the countries whose names start with 'A'
+    using a temporary table which is automatically deleted:
+   </para>
+ <programlisting>
+ BEGIN;
+ CREATE TEMP TABLE a_list_COUNTRIES AS
+     SELECT * FROM country WHERE country_name LIKE 'A%';
+ COPY a_list_countries TO '/usr1/proj/bray/sql/a_list_countries.copy';
+ ROLLBACK;
+ </programlisting>
+   </para>
+
+   <para>
     Here is a sample of data suitable for copying into a table from
     <literal>STDIN</literal>:
  <programlisting>