>> As promised, I have created the doc (CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW manual)
>> patch.
> 
> -      because the triggers will be invoked.
> +      because the triggers will be invoked. We call this form of materialized
> +      view as "Incremantal materialized View Maintenance" (IVM).
> 
> This part seems incorrect to me.  Incremental (materialized) View
> Maintenance (IVM) is a way to maintain materialized views and is not a
> word to refer views to be maintained.
> 
> However, it would be useful if there is a term referring views which
> can be maintained using IVM. Off the top of my head, we can call this
> Incrementally Maintainable Views (= IMVs), but this might cofusable with
> IVM, so I'll think about that a little more....

But if we introduce IMV, IVM would be used in much less places in the
doc and source code, so less confusion would happen, I guess.

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Tatsuo Ishii
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