On 26 November 2012 13:07, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > None of those patches were small patches. It's going to take multiple > years to get materialized views up to a state where they're really > useful to a broad audience in production applications, but I don't > think we should sneer at anyone for writing a patch that is "just > syntactic sugar".
+1. I have a sweet tooth. I don't like it when people criticise patches on the basis of "obviously you could achieve the same effect with $CONVOLUTION". Making things simpler is a desirable outcome. Now, that isn't to say that we should disregard everything or even anything else in pursuit of simplicity; just that "needing a Ph.D is Postgresology", as you once put it, to do something routine to many is really hard to defend. -- Peter Geoghegan http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
