Re: Please advise features in 7.1 (SUMMARY)

From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:19:45PM +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:
> > > I guess it depends on what you're using it for -- disk space
> > > is cheap and
> > > abundant anymore, I can see some advantages of having it
> > > computed only once
> > > rather than X times, where X is the number of SELECTs as that
> > > could get
> > > costly on really high traffic servers.. Costly not so much for simple
> > > computations like that but more complex ones.
> >
>
> <snip good arguments about disk space>
>
> As I said in my original post, my understanding of computed fields may
> be in error. If they're computed at SELECT time, to avoid creating table
> space, then a VIEW is exacly the right solution. However, it's easy to
> come up with examples of complex calculations that it would be useful
> to cache the results of, in the table. Then, computing at INSERT/UPDATE
> is clearly the way to go.
>
> So, having _both_ is the best thing.
>
> Ross
>

I'm new at this, but the view thing?
Isn't that just the same as:

create table test2 ( i1 int4, i2 int4);
...insert...
select i1,i2,i1+i2 from test2;

Magnus

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