Re: COPY is not working - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Cédric Villemain
Subject Re: COPY is not working
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Msg-id u2qe94e14cd1004300431i7fed61eao7fc47b4ad45328de@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: COPY is not working  (Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>)
List pgsql-hackers
2010/4/30 Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Takahiro Itagaki
> <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>>
>> Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> wrote:
>>
>>> ah! this is because COPY doesn't follow inherited tables... should it?
>>
>> Yes. You can use "COPY (SELECT * FROM a) TO " instead to copy all tuples.
>>
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-copy.html
>> | COPY can only be used with plain tables, not with views.
>> | However, you can write COPY (SELECT * FROM viewname) TO ....
>>
>> Should we add "or parent tables" after "not with views"?
>> To be exact, it would be "'COPY a parent table TO' only copies
>> tuples in the parent table and does not copy inherited child tables".
>>
>
> +1 on make this clear on the docs

It works with parent table. Depends if the parent table have data or not.
COPY is more like SELECT FROM ONLY table, isn't it ?

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