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From John Moore
Subject views: performance implication
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Msg-id 5.1.1.6.2.20020704114507.049a1008@pop3.norton.antivirus
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Responses Re: views: performance implication  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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We hope to use views as a way to give customers odbc based ad-hoc query
access to our database while enforcing security. The reason is that we do
not want to put data into separate tables by customer, but rather use a
customer ID as part of any query criteria on any table.

So the question is: are there any negative performance implications of
doing so (other than the obvious of having more data in a table than is of
interest to the querying customer)? Back in the old days, views were a
performance no-no in Informix, so I want to be sure we aren't setting a big
trap for ourselves.

Thanks in advance.




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