On Nov 27, 2012, at 5:25, Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> > So my proposal for the current feature would be: > > ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW mv UPDATE [ CONCURRENTLY ]; > UPDATE MATERIALIZED VIEW mv; > > The choice of keywords and syntax here hopefully clearly hint the user > about the locking behavior of the commands, too. And as we said, the > bare minimum for this patch does *not* include the CONCURRENTLY option, > which we still all want to have (someday). :) > I dislike using ALTER syntax to perform a data-only action. The other advantage of non-functional syntax is that you could more easily supply some form of where clause should you only want to perform a partial refresh. With a function call that becomes more obtuse. David J. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
