On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> 2010/4/10 Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net>: >>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >>>> 1. Keep the materialized view up-to-date when the base tables change. >>>> This can be further divided into many steps, you can begin by supporting >>>> automatic updates only on very simple views with e.g a single table and >>>> a where clause. Then extend that to support joins, aggregates, >>>> subqueries etc. Keeping it really limited, you could even require the >>>> user to write the required triggers himself. >>> That last bit doesn't strike me as much of an advance. Isn't the whole point >>> of this to automate it? Creating greedy materialized views is usually not >>> terribly difficult now, but you do have to write the triggers. >> >> Yeah, I agree. > > It doesn't accomplish anything interesting on its own. But if you do the > planner changes to automatically use the materialized view to satisfy > queries (item 2. in my previous email), it's useful.
But you can't do that with a snapshot view, only a continuous updated one. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers