Re: R: feature proposal ...

absolutely - the main advantage of the syntax tweak is that you can  
add parameters more easily.
    best regards,
        hans



On 22 Sep 2005, at 21:25, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:31:42AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> While I'm all for COPY from views, I think I'd rather have the  
> syntactic
> warts than code warts. ISTM that
>
> CREATE TEMP VIEW some_name AS SELECT * FROM table WHERE ...;
> COPY some_name TO stdout;
>
> is much uglier than
>
> COPY SELECT * FROM table WHERE ... TO stdout;
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