| From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_depend |
| Date: | 2001-07-18 15:43:10 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20010719014310.02026940@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 11:38 18/07/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> I think any deisgn needs to cater for attr dependencies. eg.
>
>I don't really see a need to recognize dependencies at finer than table
>level. I'd just make the dependency be from view_a to a and keep things
>simple. What's so wrong with recompiling the view for *every* change
>of the underlying table?
>
Not a problem for views, but when you get to constraints on large tables,
re-evaluating all the constraints unnecessarily could be a nightmare, and
especially frustrating when you just dropped an irrelevant attr.
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