Re: flattened tables with normalized tables

From: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: flattened tables with normalized tables
Date: 2004-10-08 04:44:00
Message-ID: 41661B10.2070504@fireserve.net
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Michael Fuhr wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:08:18PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote:
>
>>About regular views, how does that speed things up, other than the initial
>>SQL interpretation of the view not needing to be done?
>
>
> I didn't mean to imply that views would speed things up -- I was
> merely suggesting them as an alternative to your "flattened table"
> if part of its purpose would be to simplify queries. You might
> want to perform some experiments to see if the performance gains
> from a materialized view are worth the extra complexity.
>
I'll do the experiments! It'll probably be about 6 months out. I plan ahead :-)

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