Re: Materialized views WIP patch

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 2/20/13 2:30 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>> Are there TRUNCATE triggers on materialized views?
>> No.  Nor SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE triggers.  You can't
>> create a trigger of any type on a materialized view.  I don't
>> think that would interfere with event triggers, though.
>
> More generally, I would consider the invalidation of a
> materialized view a DDL command, whereas truncating a table is a
> DML command.

The force of that assertion is somewhat undercut by the fact that
the ExecuteTruncate() function does exactly what needs to be done
to discard the data in a materialized view and make it appear as
non-scannable.  Even if we dress it up with different syntax, it's
not clear that we wouldn't build a TruncateStmt in the parser and
pass it through exactly the same execution path.  We would just
need to look at the relkind to generate a different command tag.

> This has various implications with triggers, logging,
> permissions.  I think it's not good to mix those two.

Could you give a more concrete example of where you see a problem?

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