>> No feature-creeping; the two features described will be hard enough.
>> Besides, we have pg_agent for that.
>
> Well, there has to be some way to refresh an MV at regular intervals, no?
For periodic update matviews, yes. However, Kevin needs only produce
the command/function call for updating a generic periodic matview. He
doesn't need to provide a scheduling utility. For simple cases, cron works.
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