Re: record identical operator

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Steve Singer <steve(at)ssinger(dot)info>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: record identical operator
Date: 2013-09-20 15:21:55
Message-ID: 20130920152155.GB8508@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-09-20 11:05:06 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andres Freund (andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> > On 2013-09-20 10:51:46 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > I'm trying to figure out why that's a perfectly acceptable solution for
> > > users running views with GROUP BYs, but apparently it isn't sufficient
> > > for mat views?
> >
> > Err, because users wrote a GROUP BY? They haven't (neccessarily) in the
> > cases of the matviews we're talking about?
>
> Sure; my thinking was going back to what Hannu had suggested where we
> have a mechanism to see if the value was updated (using xmin or similar)
> and then update it in the mat view in that case, without actually doing
> a comparison at all.

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Greetings,

Andres Freund

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