Re: Materialized views WIP patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marko Tiikkaja <pgmail(at)joh(dot)to>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Materialized views WIP patch
Date: 2013-02-21 15:42:00
Message-ID: 26479.1361461320@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Peter claimed upthread that REFRESH is a subcommand of ALTER
>> MATERIALIZE VIEW

> It's not, nor do I think it should be.

Oh, never mind then.

>> and that this operation should be another one. That sounds
>> pretty reasonable from here.

> That feels completely wrong to me. For one thing, I can't think of
> any ALTER commands to populate or remove data. What did you think
> of the idea of something like DISCARD MATERIALIZED VIEW DATA as a
> new statment? Or maybe RESET MATERIALIZED VIEW?

I could live with either DISCARD or RESET.

regards, tom lane

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