[SQOOP-410] Direct modes can't import views

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.2
• Component/s: connectors/mysql, connectors/postgresql
• Assignee: Jarek Jarcec Cecho
• Reporter: Lars Francke
• Created: 14/Dec/11 15:03
• Updated: 05/Aug/12 02:04
• Resolved: 04/Aug/12 18:22

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL don't export views in direct modes. MySQL just silently ignores any views when running mysqldump and Postgres gives an error message.

There's probably no easy way to detect if something is a view but this should at least go into the documentation I suppose.

http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/is-there-a-reason-we-can-t-copy-from-a-view-td2851875.html

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