Re: [GENERAL] Refresh Materialized View

2014-01-02 Thread Kevin Grittner
Jayadevan M wrote: > Jayadevan M wrote: >> A few questions about materialized views. >> When I refresh a materialized view, is it a DELETE/INSERT behind >> the scenes? With 9.3 it is closer to TRUNCATE/SELECT INTO behind the scenes. In 9.4 (expected to be released next year) the CONCURRENTLY o

Re: [GENERAL] Refresh Materialized View

2014-01-01 Thread Jayadevan M
To answer my own question, I saw this thread - http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Efficiency-of-materialized-views-refresh-in-9-3-td5762618.html I think that does answer my questions. Nothing has changed? Regards, Jayadevan On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Jayadevan M wrote: > Hello all, >

[GENERAL] Refresh Materialized View

2014-01-01 Thread Jayadevan M
Hello all, A few questions about materialized views. When I refresh a materialized view, is it a DELETE/INSERT behind the scenes? Do we need to vacuum to reclaim space? If a query is executed against the view when the refresh is happening, will the query see the data before the refresh started? Doe