Re: Documentation/help for materialized and recursive views

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Nicolas Barbier <nicolas(dot)barbier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Documentation/help for materialized and recursive views
Date: 2013-06-28 03:54:01
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

>>> The functionality of materialized views will (over time) totally swamp
>>> that of normal views, so mixing all the corresponding documentation
>>> with the documentation for normal views probably doesn’t make things
>>> easier for people that are only interested in normal views.
>>
>> That's a better point I think. That said, it would be very useful if
>> it actually showed up in "\h CREATE VIEW" in psql - I wonder if we
>> should just add the syntax to that page, and then link said future
>> information on a separate page somehow?
>
> IMHO, it's better to keep them separate; they are very different beasts.

+1

Although I wonder whether we shouldn't cross-link those pages....

 
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