Re: Views- Advantages and Disadvantages - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: Views- Advantages and Disadvantages
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In response to Re: Views- Advantages and Disadvantages  ("Ashish Karalkar" <ashish.karalkar@info-spectrum.com>)
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On 05/09/07 03:48, Ashish Karalkar wrote:
> Ok. That is on insert update delete part.
> ant disadvantage on select part?

Performance-wise?  No.

Both an advantage and disadvantage of views is that it codifies
certain queries in the database.

P.S. - top-posting is rude.

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Views- Advantages and Disadvantages
>
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> On 05/09/07 03:36, Ashish Karalkar wrote:
>>>> Thanks All for your replies,
>>>> But then dont we have any disadvantage of using View???
>
> You can't insert into multi-table views.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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