Re: GSoC - proposal - Materialized Views in PostgreSQL

Robert Haas wrote:
> 2010/4/10 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)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.

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