Re: Incremental refresh of materialized view - Patch

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "hari(dot)prasath" <hari(dot)prasath(at)zohocorp(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Incremental refresh of materialized view - Patch
Date: 2016-05-12 14:25:57
Message-ID: CACjxUsP8J6bA4RKxbmwujTVMwMZrgR3AZ7yP5F2XkB-f9w7K7Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:05 AM, hari.prasath <hari(dot)prasath(at)zohocorp(dot)com> wrote:

> However if the same methods in matview.c
> OpenMatViewIncrementalMaintenance & CloseMatViewIncrementalMaintenance are
> mad extern its possible to do DML from the patches like i am building now.
>
> Is there any other way of doing DML operations on materialized views
> from patch.?

If you want to maintain materialized data using application-level
DML, you should use a table, not a materialized view. Once there
is built-in incremental maintenance, allowing DML will just make
the contents of a materialized view completely unreliable.

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Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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