Re: Materialized views don't show up in information_schema

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Sehrope Sarkuni <sehrope(at)jackdb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Materialized views don't show up in information_schema
Date: 2014-10-11 00:34:24
Message-ID: 54387B10.2050506@gmx.net
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On 10/10/14 6:53 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> I'm not particularly thrilled with this answer. I'd aruge that the
> 'materialized' part of mat views isn't relevant to the standard, which
> does not concern itself with such performance-oriented considerations,
> and therefore, to the standard's view (pun rather intended), they're
> views.

For example, you can't drop a materialized view with DROP VIEW. So any
tool that offers a list of views to manipulate based on the information
schema would be confused. This is different from temporary views, for
example.

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