Re: Dropping a temporary view?

On 3/20/24 09:51, Celia McInnis wrote:
> The view is being used in some web query software that multiple people 
> will be accessing and the contents of the view depend on what the person 
> is querying, so I think that temporary views or tables are a good idea. 
> I change to non-temporary views or tables (in a test version of the 
> software which is not web-crawl-able) when I'm trying to debug things, 
> and I guess I have to be careful to clean those up when I switch back to 
> the temporary tables/views.

Why change behavior for the tests? Seems that sort of negates the value 
of the testing.

Have you run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on the problem query?


> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 11:46 AM Adrian Klaver 
> <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 3/20/24 08:39, Celia McInnis wrote:
>      > Ok, thanks - so I guess that means that if there is both a
>     temporary and
>      > a non temporary view called "tempvie",
>      >
>      > DROP VIEW tempview;
>      >
>      > will remove the 1st tempview found, which with my path is the
>     temporary
>      > one. Is there some reason why it then took 7 minutes to select
>     from the
>      > non-temporary view tempview after I dropped the temporary view
>     tempview?
>      >
>      > I have sometimes had some very long query times when running query
>      > software, and maybe they are resulting from my switching between
>      > temporary and non-temporary views of the same name while
>     debugging. If
>      > so, is there something I should be doing to clean up any temporary
>      > messes I am creating?
> 
>     What is the purpose of the temp view over the the regular view process?
> 
>     How do they differ in data?
> 
>     Is all the above happening in one session?
> 
>     Have you run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on the select from the regular view?
> 
>      >
>      > Thanks,
>      > Celia McInnis
>      >
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Adrian Klaver
>     adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> 

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