Re: RETURNING syntax for COPY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 05/08/2013 03:23 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> WITH new_data AS (
>>     COPY FROM ...
>>     RETURNING id, field_to_check
>> )
>

Why is this better than this, which you can do today?
   WITH new_data AS (        INSERT into ... FROM foreign_table_with_file_fdw RETURNING ...   )


The whole reason I abandoned trying to do this sort of thing with COPY 
was that I realized the FDW would provide what I wanted.

cheers

andrew