Re: Interesting CREATE TABLE AS misbehavior

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jimn(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Interesting CREATE TABLE AS misbehavior
Date: 2006-09-18 04:30:00
Message-ID: 20060918043000.GW38854@enterprisedb.com
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On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:10:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm inclined to fix this in HEAD but not back-patch it, on the grounds
> that there might be apps out there expecting the existing behavior,
> and it's not a big enough deal to change behavior in a minor release.
> Thoughts?

Isn't the existing behavior that you can't do something (ie, throws an
error)? Doesn't seem like much would break to fix it. Then again, I
can't remember anyone complaining about this, so it's probably not worth
the effort.
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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