| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Nicolas Barbier <nicolas(dot)barbier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Materialized views WIP patch |
| Date: | 2013-03-08 14:11:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20130308141155.GE25013@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 09:16:59AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 5 March 2013 22:02, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> FWIW, my opinion is that doing anything like this in the planner is
> >> going to be enormously expensive.
>
> > As we already said: no MVs => zero overhead => no problem.
>
> Well, in the first place that statement is false on its face: we'll
> still spend cycles looking for relevant MVs, or at least maintaining a
> complexly-indexed cache that helps us find out that there are none in
> a reasonable amount of time. In the second place, even if it were
> approximately true it wouldn't help the people who were using MVs.
>
> > It costs in
> > the cases where time savings are possible and not otherwise.
>
> And that is just complete nonsense: matching costs whether you find a
> match or not. Could we have a little less Pollyanna-ish optimism and
> a bit more realism about the likely cost of such a feature?
Should we add this to the TODO list as a possibility?
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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