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Re: Avoid calling SetMatViewPopulatedState if possible

cca5507 <cca5507@qq.com> — 2026-05-08T02:27:02Z

> But refreshing a materialized view doesn't only change relispopulated
> but also columns like relfilenode, relpages, relhasindex, etc. Doesn't
> changing these columns during REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW make your
> optimization applicable in a lot less cases?

I don't think so. If we can skip SetMatViewPopulatedState(), we avoid generating
a dead pg_class tuple in all cases.

> I'm actually wondering why it works at all, even in the example you
> gave. Because I thought that even when nothing has changed the pg_class
> row is updated for more columns than just relispopulated.

"refresh materialized view concurrently" is done by doing DELETE + INSERT
to the matview directly, so only relispopulated will change before the patch.
After the patch, the pg_class row don't change anymore.

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Regards,
ChangAo Chen