Re: Materialized views WIP patch

From: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Materialized views WIP patch
Date: 2013-03-02 14:36:28
Message-ID: CAM-w4HPF1RNcHpsCkTgg0uXiSs8eOAcky_UA8UYsyNvTvFjHqw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
> . To give another example of potential future
> update semantics, if we were to allow users manually maintaining
> materialized view contents using DML commands, one would expect
> TRUNCATE to mean "make this matview empty", not "make this matview
> unavailable".

Wouldn't that just be a regular table then though? How is that a
materialized view?

If anything someone might expect truncate to delete any rows from the
source table that appear in the view. But I think it's likely that
even if materialized views were updateable truncate wouldn't be one of
the updateable operations.

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greg

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