Re: Materialized views WIP patch

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:02:17PM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On 26 November 2012 15:24, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> > I hate to add to the bike-shedding, but we should probably add
> > REFRESH SNAPSHOT as an optional piece of the grammar, with more
> > REFRESH options to come.
> 
> I don't know that they should be called materialised views, but do
> we really need to overload the word snapshot? I'd just as soon
> invent a new word as use the Oracle one, since I don't think the
> term snapshot is widely recognised as referring to anything other
> than snapshot isolation.

I believe that the meaning here is unambiguous, and is used in other
descriptions than Oracle's, including the one on our wiki.

Cheers,
David.
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