Re: Parameters for views based on other views

>Hi,
>I have a complex query that I want to make more manageable
>by splitting it into two separate views and using a third
>view to bring the two together.  So I have something like
>CREATE VIEW vw1 AS
>    SELECT A.Field1, B.Field2 FROM A, B WHERE A.Field3=B.Field3;
>
>CREATE VIEW vw2 AS
>    SELECT B.Field5, C.Field6 FROM B, C WHERE B.Field7=C.Field7;
>
>CREATE VIEW vw3 AS
>    SELECT * FROM vw1, vw2 WHERE vw1.Field1=vw2.Field5;
>(the real case for the above is of course much more complicated)
>
>I can now open the third view by
>SELECT * FROM vw3 WHERE Field1=13 AND Field2=23;
>
>However this query runs very slow.  I tried defining the views with
>parameters in the WHERE clauses in each view and I got a MUCH BETTER
>performance.  So my questions are:
>* Why does this happen?  Doesn't PG use the parameters to open each view?
>* How can I define views with variables as parameters so that I can
>assign values to the parameters and then open the view?  If there
>is a way for this, does it improve performance?
>* I am thinking of writing a function that will drop these views and
>recreate them with parameters in each view and return the result
>of the select statement above.  Is this a good idea?
>* What is the general way of using complicated parameterized queries
>in PG?
>
>Thanks a lot for any suggestions
>
>Nicolas
>
>

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