Re: Can I use PostgreSQL to develop a self-organizing - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Can I use PostgreSQL to develop a self-organizing
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Msg-id 20030908220823.GA16727@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: Can I use PostgreSQL to develop a self-organizing  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Can I use PostgreSQL to develop a self-organizing  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:55:43PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:

> Materialized views are a godsend for DSS systems, and self-organized
> materialized views sound too good to be true. Is this really feasible?
> It sounds awfully ambitious considering postgres doesn't even have
> materialized views yet.

There is also the question of how would one actually use self-organizing
views... what would be the syntax for them?  Should the parser recognize
that some join you are giving to it is a previously self-organized view
and contract the sentence?

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Puedes vivir solo una vez, pero si lo haces bien, una vez es suficiente"

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