On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >I disagree with the notion that defining a relation in terms of a > >query (like a view) and materializing the results (like a table) > >makes "materialized view" a misleading name. > > > *IMHO, I disagree. I feel a better name would be "materialized table". * > *However, it is too late to change that now. Just my personal opinion.* > Sounds redundant - and implies that a TABLE without the materialized prefix isn't, which is not true. The only other name I came up with was worse...CREATE VIEWTABLE AS David J.