- Allow to use qualified name
- Confirm if executed by the owner of the IMMV
- Improve the message when specified relation is not an IMMV
- Create a unique index at refresh with no dat if possible
This is actually required, but we want it behave as same
as the pgsql-ivm version for now.
When a base table is truncated, the view content will be empty if the
view definition query does not contain an aggregate without a GROUP clause.
Therefore, such views can be truncated.
Aggregate views without a GROUP clause always have one row. Therefore,
if a base table is truncated, the view will not be empty and will contain
a row with NULL value (or 0 for count()). So, in this case, we refresh the
view instead of truncating it.
Built-in count, sum, avg are supported. We have not supported min/max
yet, but will support in future.
When an IMMV with any aggregates are defined, additional columns
are created for each aggregate function. Although such columns are
"hidden" in pgsql-ivm version, they are always visible for users
in the extension version.
refresh_immv(immv_name, with_data) is a function to refresh IMMV like
REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW command. It has two argument.
immv_name is incrementally maintainable materialized view's name, and
with_data is an option that is corresponding to the WITH [NO] DATA option.
When with_data is set false, the IMMV gets unpopulated.
One of differences between IMMVs unpopulated by this function and
normal materialized views unpopulated by REFRESH ... WITH NO DATA
is that such IMMVs can be referenced by SELECT but return no rows,
while unpopulated materialized views are not scanable.
The behaviour may be changed in future to raise an error when unpopulated
an IMMV is scanned.