On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:02:17PM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On 26 November 2012 15:24, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > > I hate to add to the bike-shedding, but we should probably add > > REFRESH SNAPSHOT as an optional piece of the grammar, with more > > REFRESH options to come. > > I don't know that they should be called materialised views, but do > we really need to overload the word snapshot? I'd just as soon > invent a new word as use the Oracle one, since I don't think the > term snapshot is widely recognised as referring to anything other > than snapshot isolation.
I believe that the meaning here is unambiguous, and is used in other descriptions than Oracle's, including the one on our wiki. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
