Re: Materialized views WIP patch

Kevin Grittner wrote:

Interesting stuff.

> /*
> + * SetRelationIsValid
> + * Set the value of the relation's relisvalid field in pg_class.
> + *
> + * NOTE: caller must be holding an appropriate lock on the relation.
> + * ShareUpdateExclusiveLock is sufficient.
> + *
> + * NOTE: an important side-effect of this operation is that an SI invalidation
> + * message is sent out to all backends --- including me --- causing plans
> + * referencing the relation to be rebuilt with the new list of children.
> + * This must happen even if we find that no change is needed in the pg_class
> + * row.
> + */
> + void
> + SetRelationIsValid(Oid relationId, bool relisvalid)
> + {

It's not clear to me that it's right to do this by doing regular heap
updates here instead of heap_inplace_update. Also, I think this might
end up causing a lot of pg_class tuple churn (at least for matviews that
delete rows at xact end), which would be nice to avoid.

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