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Brendan Clement eedde82253 docs: leave a deployment's materialized view refresh mode to its version
Sophon main now refreshes an eligible materialized view incrementally,
appending what an append-only source added since the last refresh, a day
after the change that made every refresh a full rebuild. So the
materialized view page and the REFRESH reference no longer say recent
versions rebuild in full: they say recent versions run views as SQL jobs,
need no stable row ids and take no refresh options, and that a full or
incremental refresh depends on the version and the view's query. COPY is
described with the same "recent versions" wording.
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---
title: "Copy"
sidebarTitle: "Copy"
description: "COPY ... TO — writing a query result to object storage as files."
icon: file-export
keywords: ["copy", "export", "parquet", "sql"]
---
<Warning>
Recent deployment versions refuse `COPY` over the SQL endpoint with "COPY is not
supported". On those, export a result by reading it through a Flight SQL client
or an SDK and writing the files from your application.
</Warning>
```sql
COPY (SELECT id, title FROM documents) TO 's3://bucket/export/' STORED AS PARQUET
```
Writes a query result to object storage. This is the export path when the
consumer is another engine rather than an application -- results land as files
rather than streaming to a client.
## What to read next {#next}
<Card title="Insert" icon="plus" href="/sql/dml/insert">
Bringing rows in, rather than exporting them.
</Card>