Re: Views- Advantages and Disadvantages

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
Cc: Ashish Karalkar <ashish(dot)karalkar(at)info-spectrum(dot)com>, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Views- Advantages and Disadvantages
Date: 2007-05-09 20:24:56
Message-ID: 46422E18.1040808@commandprompt.com
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Dann Corbit wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-
>> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Ashish Karalkar
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:36 AM
>> To: Andrej Ricnik-Bay; Ron Johnson
>> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Views- Advantages and Disadvantages
>>
>> Thanks All for your replies,
>>
>> But then dont we have any disadvantage of using View???
>
> Views can hide important information from the optimizer (especially
> index information).

I don't believe that is true in PostgreSQL's case.

Joshua D. Drake

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