Re: GSoC - Materialized Views - is stale or fresh?

Robert Haas  wrote:
> What Pavel's trying to do here is be smart about figuring out when
> an MV needs to be refreshed.  I'm pretty sure this is the wrong
> way to go about it, but it seems entirely premature considering
> that we don't have a working implementation of a *manually*
> refreshed MV.
Agreed all around.
At the risk of sounding obsessed, this is an area where predicate
locks might be usefully extended, if and when the serializable patch
makes it in.
-Kevin