Re: Feature: temporary materialized views

Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com>

From: Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-12-27T09:01:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Hi!

I made a new version of the patch. I added tests and changes to the
docs and made sure various other aspects of this change for as well. I
think this now makes temporary materialized views fully implemented
and that in my view patch is complete. If there is anything else to
add, please let me know, I do not yet have much experience
contributing here. What are next steps? Do I just wait for it to be
included into Commitfest? Do I add it there myself?


Mitar

On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 9:00 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On 2018-Dec-25, Mitar wrote:
>
> > Sometimes materialized views are used to cache a complex query on
> > which a client works. But after client disconnects, the materialized
> > view could be deleted. Regular VIEWs and TABLEs both have support for
> > temporary versions which get automatically dropped at the end of the
> > session. It seems it is easy to add the same thing for materialized
> > views as well. See attached PoC patch.
>
> I think MVs that are dropped at session end are a sensible feature.  I
> probably wouldn't go as far as allowing ON COMMIT actions, though, so
> this much effort is the right amount.
>
> I think if you really want to do this you should just use OptTemp, and
> delete OptNoLog.  Of course, you need to add tests and patch the docs.
>
> --
> Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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  1. Add more tests for CREATE TABLE AS with WITH NO DATA