Re: Materialized views WIP patch

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)mail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Marko Tiikkaja <pgmail(at)joh(dot)to>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Materialized views WIP patch
Date: 2013-02-20 14:29:45
Message-ID: 5124DDD9.1040800@gmx.net
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On 2/19/13 5:22 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:09:13PM +0100, Erik Rijkers wrote:
>> On Sat, February 16, 2013 02:01, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>> matview-v4.patch.gz
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if material views should not go into information_schema. I was thinking either
>> .views or .tables. Have you considered this?
>
> I'm guessing it'd be .views if anything. Haven't been able to
> decipher from section 11 of the standard (Schemata) whether the
> standard has anything to say on the matter.

I suppose one should be able to expect that if one finds a view in the
information schema, then one should be able to use DROP VIEW to remove
it. Which in this case wouldn't work. So I don't think including a
materialized view under views or tables is appropriate.

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