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From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Reading on how materialized views are materialized?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:23:43 +0200
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Wells Oliver schrieb am 22.06.2018 um 20:51:
> Where can I find some more detail? I am deciding between a flat table
> populated for the current month only with a script versus a
> materialized view, and I'd like to understand better if the latter is
> intelligently being refreshed (meaning years of data won't be
> re-populated, only what's changed).


MViews currently don't support "incremental" refresh in Postgres. 

A refresh of a mview is essentially the same as:

  truncate table foo;
  insert into foo 
  select ...
  from ....;

Where the SELECT part is the query used to define the mview. 








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