Re: Refresh Materialized View

To answer my own question, I saw this thread -
http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Efficiency-of-materialized-views-refresh-in-9-3-td5762618.html
I think that does answer my questions. Nothing has changed?
Regards,
Jayadevan

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Jayadevan M <maymala(dot)jayadevan(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Hello all,
> A few questions about materialized views.
> When I refresh a materialized view, is it a DELETE/INSERT behind the
> scenes?
> Do we need to vacuum to reclaim space?
> If a query is executed against the view when the refresh is happening,
> will the query see the data before the refresh started?
> Does the refresh result in exclusive locking?
> Regards,
> Jayadevan
>