On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> So the question is, would a
>> patch which does the first two without the third be accepted by the
>> community?
+1 Definitely.
> I'm about 99% sure the answer to that is 'yes'. Are you thinking of
> having a background scheduler which handles the updating of
> schedule-driven (instead of trigger-driven) MVs..? Not to try to
> feature-creep this on you, but you might consider how a new backend
> process which handles scheduled tasks could be generalized to go beyond
> handling just MV updates.. :)
+1 That sure would be nice. Might be some useful stuff in pgAgent to pull into this (license permitting).
Best,
David