Hi In playing with materialized views, I noticed that they still seem to have an _RETURN rule implicitly created like a regular view. This doesn't seem right to me - is there a reason?
viper:~ dpage$ /usr/local/pgsql-9.3/bin/psql -p 5433 -U postgres psql (9.3beta1) Type "help" for help. postgres=# CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW ruletest AS SELECT * FROM pg_class; SELECT 298 postgres=# SELECT pg_get_ruledef(oid) FROM pg_rewrite WHERE ev_class = 'ruletest'::regclass; pg_get_ruledef ----------------------------------------------------------------- CREATE RULE "_RETURN" AS + ON SELECT TO ruletest DO INSTEAD SELECT pg_class.relname, + pg_class.relnamespace, + pg_class.reltype, + pg_class.reloftype, + pg_class.relowner, + pg_class.relam, + pg_class.relfilenode, + pg_class.reltablespace, + pg_class.relpages, + pg_class.reltuples, + pg_class.relallvisible, + pg_class.reltoastrelid, + pg_class.reltoastidxid, + pg_class.relhasindex, + pg_class.relisshared, + pg_class.relpersistence, + pg_class.relkind, + pg_class.relnatts, + pg_class.relchecks, + pg_class.relhasoids, + pg_class.relhaspkey, + pg_class.relhasrules, + pg_class.relhastriggers, + pg_class.relhassubclass, + pg_class.relispopulated, + pg_class.relfrozenxid, + pg_class.relminmxid, + pg_class.relacl, + pg_class.reloptions + FROM pg_class; (1 row) -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers