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Re: Materialized views WIP patch

Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Marko Tiikkaja <pgmail@joh.to>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@mail.com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-11-26T13:42:05Z
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On 26 November 2012 13:07, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> None of those patches were small patches.  It's going to take multiple
> years to get materialized views up to a state where they're really
> useful to a broad audience in production applications, but I don't
> think we should sneer at anyone for writing a patch that is "just
> syntactic sugar".

+1. I have a sweet tooth. I don't like it when people criticise
patches on the basis of "obviously you could achieve the same effect
with $CONVOLUTION". Making things simpler is a desirable outcome. Now,
that isn't to say that we should disregard everything or even anything
else in pursuit of simplicity; just that "needing a Ph.D is
Postgresology", as you once put it, to do something routine to many is
really hard to defend.

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Peter Geoghegan       http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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