On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I haven't been able to think of a way to create circular references > among a set of materialized views, short of committing violence > against the system catalog tables directly. What have I missed? Not directly, but you can create circles with matviews selecting from ordinary views: create view v_a as select 1 i; create materialized view m_a as select * from v_a; create view v_b as select * from m_a; create materialized view m_b as select * from v_b; create or replace view v_a as select * from m_b; -- Cha-ching! You probably won't hit them if you don't recurse into views in pg_depends, but then you might miss some necessary dependencies. I didn't really give this much thought though. Such a setup might not be refresh'able after a restore because you run into a recursive "materialized view "x" has not been populated". (Maybe it is possible if the recursive reference occurs in a subquery that isn't scanned? dunno) Now that I tried it, pg_dump has this to say: pg_dump: [sorter] WARNING: could not resolve dependency loop among these items: pg_dump: [sorter] REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW m_a (ID 1971 OID 18834835) pg_dump: [sorter] WARNING: could not resolve dependency loop among these items: pg_dump: [sorter] REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW m_b (ID 1972 OID 18834843) pg_dump: [sorter] WARNING: could not resolve dependency loop among these items: pg_dump: [sorter] REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW m_a (ID 1971 OID 18834835) pg_dump: [sorter] REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW m_b (ID 1972 OID 18834843) Regards, Marti -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
