"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What exactly is the advantage in using VIEWs?

A level of logical indirection between the application and the physical
data schema.  There are no performance benefits.

> I get the impression that the
> SELECT query it is based on is cached (ie. a cached query plan).

Nope.  If there's something in the docs that makes you think so,
point out so I can fix it ;-)

                        regards, tom lane

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