in BeginCopyTo make materialized view using COPY TO instead of COPY (query). - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

hi.
generally  COPY TO``COPY table`` is faster than ``COPY (select * from table)``.

in BeginCopyTo. we have
"""
        else if (rel->rd_rel->relkind == RELKIND_MATVIEW)
            ereport(ERROR,
                    (errcode(ERRCODE_WRONG_OBJECT_TYPE),
                     errmsg("cannot copy from materialized view \"%s\"",
                            RelationGetRelationName(rel)),
                     errhint("Try the COPY (SELECT ...) TO variant.")));
"""
Since materialized views have physical storage,

we can make materialized views also using COPY table_name, instead of
COPY(query).

Some simple tests show around %3.7 or 4.3% speed up.