Re: Dropping a temporary view?

Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>

From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-03-20T17:00:50Z
Lists: pgsql-general

On 3/20/24 10:51, Celia McInnis wrote:
> The view is being used in some web query software that multiple people 
> will be accessing and the contents of the view depend on what the 
> person is querying, so I think that temporary views or tables are a 
> good idea. I change to non-temporary views or tables (in a test 
> version of the software which is not web-crawl-able) when I'm trying 
> to debug things, and I guess I have to be careful to clean those up 
> when I switch back to the temporary tables/views.
>
>
Are multiple people seeing the same dataset, or is each getting their 
own data albeit of the same structure?  What mechanism populates the 
web-page?  I ask because I think you might not need to make database 
structures at all.