Re: Documentation/help for materialized and recursive views - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Documentation/help for materialized and recursive views
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYDgFEF=ByK4nkd4qD8FgT9KT056yWBWJTHd9PAu=jSRg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Documentation/help for materialized and recursive views  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> How different are they really? Yes, they are very different from an
> implementation standpoint, from an enduser perspective they really are
> not. If they were, they'd probably be called something else.

They're different because they consume storage, require effort to
update, and aren't always up-to-date.  Those things are all quite
user-visible.

> I still think a better option to that would be to get psql to provide
> a link to the full documentation there.

It seems like clutter to me, but I'll defer to whatever the consensus is.

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Robert Haas
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