Re: Materialized views

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Materialized views
Date: 2011-11-09 00:15:29
Message-ID: B8C5EC11-D870-4493-9AC4-9AB0FD8C3FE7@kineticode.com
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On Nov 8, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:

>> I'm about 99% sure the answer to that is 'yes'. Are you thinking of
>> having a background scheduler which handles the updating of
>> schedule-driven (instead of trigger-driven) MVs..? Not to try to
>> feature-creep this on you, but you might consider how a new backend
>> process which handles scheduled tasks could be generalized to go beyond
>> handling just MV updates.. :)
>
> No feature-creeping; the two features described will be hard enough.
> Besides, we have pg_agent for that.

Well, there has to be some way to refresh an MV at regular intervals, no?

Best,

David

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