On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Jackson, DeJuan wrote:
> > seems that by creating a view ( with the query i mentioned before ),
> > my
> > queries were sped up by roughly 10 seconds... odd odd odd.
> >
> Not really so odd when you think of everything the backend has to do to
> process a query. Parsing, planning, and optimizing (not necessarily in
> that order) can be very costly. A view basically skips most of those
> three steps.
all thats taken out is the parsing bit. the planning and optimizing still
must be done ( unless its done when the view is/was created ), yesno ?
the view should still hit the indexes created for the underlying tables,
right ?
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