Re: record identical operator

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: record identical operator
Date: 2013-09-18 16:36:45
Message-ID: 20130918163645.GU2706@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Merlin Moncure (mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> Having matviews using SQL expressible features is a *good* thing.

Fine, then it should be implemented *using SQL*, which is based on
*values*, not on how the value is represented in bits and bytes.

> Having a user accessible operator is nice to have (if for no other
> reason than to allow testing for which matview rows would be
> refreshed).

If it's not actually *changing* (wrt its value), then I'm not at all
impressed with the notion that it's going to get updated anyway.

Thanks,

Stephen

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