Re: Implementing Incremental View Maintenance

On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 07:19:44 +0900 (JST)
Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> wrote:

> >> As promised, I have created the doc (CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW manual)
> >> patch.
> > 
> > -      because the triggers will be invoked.
> > +      because the triggers will be invoked. We call this form of materialized
> > +      view as "Incremantal materialized View Maintenance" (IVM).
> > 
> > This part seems incorrect to me.  Incremental (materialized) View
> > Maintenance (IVM) is a way to maintain materialized views and is not a
> > word to refer views to be maintained.
> > 
> > However, it would be useful if there is a term referring views which
> > can be maintained using IVM. Off the top of my head, we can call this
> > Incrementally Maintainable Views (= IMVs), but this might cofusable with
> > IVM, so I'll think about that a little more....
> 
> But if we introduce IMV, IVM would be used in much less places in the
> doc and source code, so less confusion would happen, I guess.

Make senses. However, we came to think that "Incrementally Maintainable
Materialized Views" (IMMs) would be good. So, how about using this for now?
When other better opinions are raised, let's discuss again

Regards,
Yugo Nagata

> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Tatsuo Ishii
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Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>