Re: Materialized views and unique indexes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Materialized views and unique indexes
Date: 2013-03-08 03:32:16
Message-ID: 7982.1362713536@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 03/08/2013 10:55 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Also, as it is not mandatory for a unique index to be a constraint, I
>> think that we should block the creation of unique indexes too to avoid
>> any problems. Any suggestions?

> How much does the planner benefit from the implied constraint of a
> unique index? I almost wonder if it should be allowed at the cost of
> making the refresh of a matview that fails to comply an error.

A unique constraint can allow join elimination, so I'm thinking that
disallowing them is a bad idea (not to mention that it'd be a
considerable wart in the code to block them for matviews only).

regards, tom lane

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