Re: Materialized views WIP patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)mail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Materialized views WIP patch
Date: 2012-11-16 22:13:01
Message-ID: 22182.1353103981@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> There's going to be a pretty strong demand for COPY FROM matviews.
> Forcing the user to use COPY FROM ( SELECT ... ) will be seen as
> arbitrary and unintuitive.

You could make that same claim about plain views, but in point of
fact the demand for making them work in COPY has been minimal.
So I'm not convinced this is an essential first-cut feature.
We can always add it later.

regards, tom lane

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