On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Jon Nelson <jnelson+pg...@jamponi.net> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_ea...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> Jon Nelson wrote on 03.04.2012 20:41: >>> >>>> Close, but not quite. It's not rotation but every N minutes a >>>> newly-built table appears. I'd like that table to appear as part of >>>> the view as soon as possible. >>> >>> >>> Can't you use table inheritance for that? >> >> >> Not efficiently. My view looks like this: >> >> select <bunch of stuff from table A>, DATE 'date string here' as >> some_date_column >> UNION ALL >> select <bunch of stuff from table B>, DATE 'date string here' as >> some_date_column >> .... >> >> for lots and lots of tables. Storing that DATE would be cost >> prohibitive and inefficient, since the same value would be used >> throughout each 'sub' table.This let's me do queries that involve >> 'some_date_column' and the query optimizer will remove the tables that >> don't apply, etc. > > I was thinking it was something like that. Have you thought of using > a pl/pgsql function with a built up and executed query to accomplish > this? That way you'd get both the efficiency of your current method > without having to rebuild views all the time.
I need to have something table-like from the client's perspective for a bunch of reasons. For now, assume that I want to keep using the view and that I'd like to find better ways to address my concerns. -- Jon -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
