Re: feature proposal ...

Added to TODO:

o Allow COPY to output from views

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Rod Taylor wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 15:25 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Wouldn't you also need a CREATE TEMP TABLE privilege but the
> >>COPY TO file USING select_statement
> >>would only need select. (In other words using a temp table would not seem to
> >>be as secure nor as general as the requested feature.)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Writing a file on the server requires significant privilege, including
> >access to the server itself so you can retrieve the results.
> >
> >
>
> But we also do COPY to STDOUT which requires no special privileges on
> the server.
>
> Incidentally, if we are going to allow copy out from views, it would be
> nice and orthogonal to allow copy in too. Hasn't there been some talk
> about making automatically writeable views?
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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