On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com> wrote:
Nice as it would be to add a SQL standard feature and advance the effort to get to incremental maintenance of materialized views, and much as I really appreciate the efforts Thomas has put into trying to solve these problems, I agree that it is best to revert the feature. It took years to get an in-depth review, then I was asked not to commit it because others were working on patches that would conflict. That just doesn't leave enough time to address these issues before release. Fundamentally, I'm not sure that there is a level of interest sufficient to support the effort.
I'll give it a few days for objections before reverting.
I can only say that the lack of this feature comes up on a weekly basis on IRC, and a lot of people would be disappointed to see it reverted.
