Re: Documentation/help for materialized and recursive views

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: 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: 2013-06-27 15:34:39
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaH+TD62-B20Us+sH7Rs-6EHRetuDqzsNL475e2d=BpXg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:29 AM, 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.

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Robert Haas
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