Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Materialized View Summary

From: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: "Jonathan M(dot) Gardner" <jgardner(at)jonathangardner(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Materialized View Summary
Date: 2004-02-24 17:40:25
Message-ID: 403B8C89.5010904@cybertec.at
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Richard Huxton wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2004 16:11, Jonathan M. Gardner wrote:
>
>>I've written a summary of my findings on implementing and using
>>materialized views in PostgreSQL. I've already deployed eagerly updating
>>materialized views on several views in a production environment for a
>>company called RedWeek: http://redweek.com/. As a result, some queries
>>that were taking longer than 30 seconds to run now run in a fraction of a
>>millisecond.
>>
>>You can view my summary at
>>http://jonathangardner.net/PostgreSQL/materialized_views/matviews.html
>
>
> Interesting (and well written) summary. Even if not a "built in" feature, I'm
> sure that plenty of people will find this useful. Make sure it gets linked to
> from techdocs.
>
> If you could identify candidate keys on a view, you could conceivably automate
> the process even more. That's got to be possible in some cases, but I'm not
> sure how difficult it is to do in all cases.
>

Are there any plans to rewrite that in C and add proper support for SQL
commands? (e.g. "CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW", "DROP VIEW", ...).

Best regards,

Hans

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