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Is there any possibility of having built-in materialized views in PostgreSQL ?

I don't want Gardner version or somehthing like physical table populated by triggers. I've read that was/is something being deploy...

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It's being developed now,may be will come trun in PostgreSQL 9.3. postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/… – francs Mar 6 at 9:13
There is possibility to delivery a beta version? – Luigi Saggese Mar 6 at 9:32
of course when the beta's start hitting... or you could just build from source... – xenoterracide Mar 6 at 11:00

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A basic version of materialized view are being delivered in 9.3, see depesz's article. However, it's a very limited version as you have to call REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW to get the database to update the view. This will hopefully improve to become automatic in later versions soon.

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