Gregory Stark wrote:
> In an ideal world I would love to be able to do something like:
>
> CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW foo AS (select count(*) from bar) WITH INCREMENTAL UPDATES;
>
> and have that automatically create both a heap to store the count and another
> to store the incremental changes. To do this would require some magic to know
> what "incremental changes" means for each aggregate where it's meaningful
> though.
>
> Then it would require some magic in the optimizer to recognize when piece of
> the query can be satisfied by a materialized view.
>
Hehe... +5 if you think it can be done in the next 12 - 24 months. :-)
Cheers,
mark
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Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>
