On 4/17/13 1:50 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> So, taking a second stab at this:
>
> Database VIEWs allow application developers to abstract database access,
> making application code simpler and version migrations easier. As such,
> PostgreSQL has improved our view support:
> * Materialized View declaration
> * Auto-updatable VIEWs
Except that materialized views aren't auto-updatable, so it would be
quite confusing to lump those together.
> * Recursive Views
You could do recursive views before. There is just now a more compact
syntax for it.