> There's a much more fundamental reason why this will never happen, which > is that the query planner is not licensed to decide that you only want > an approximate and not an exact answer to your query.
I think it would be worth talking about when someone wants to implement it. I'd imagine it would require setting a GUC, though, which would be off by default for obvious reasosn. > If MVs were guaranteed always up-to-date, maybe we could think about > automatic use of them --- but that's a far different feature from what > Kevin has here. And of limited utility, as mentioned. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
