Re: storing binary data

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>, "Jason Orendorff" <jason(at)jorendorff(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: storing binary data
Date: 2001-10-25 02:21:38
Message-ID: 1602.1003976498@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> What exactly is the advantage in using VIEWs?

A level of logical indirection between the application and the physical
data schema. There are no performance benefits.

> I get the impression that the
> SELECT query it is based on is cached (ie. a cached query plan).

Nope. If there's something in the docs that makes you think so,
point out so I can fix it ;-)

regards, tom lane

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