On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
> Certainly easier, but I don't think it'd be better. Matviews really aren't
> the same thing as tables. Off-hand (without reviewing the patch), update and
> delete counts certainly wouldn't make any sense. "Insert" counts might, in
> as much as it's how many rows have been added by refreshes. You'd want a
> refresh count too.
Regular REFRESH truncates the view and repopulates it, but REFRESH
CONCURRENTLY does inserts, updates, and deletes as needed to adjust
the contents. So I think all the same counters that make sense for
regular tables are also sensible here.
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