Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Kevin Grittner
> <kevin.grittner@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> A materialized view is pretty much like a view, but with the results
>> materialized.
> Yeah, I get that, but what is confusing is that this now seems to be a
> special kind of relation where there is an ON SELECT DO INSTEAD rule
> which isn't actually executed on SELECTs from the view but at some
> arbitrary time in the future.
There is that. I wondered before if it would be worth the trouble to
invent a distinct pg_rewrite.ev_type value for these things, ie the rule
would be something like "ON REFRESH DO INSTEAD ...". On balance that
seems like it would force a lot of additional code changes for
questionable benefit, though.
regards, tom lane
