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Learning PostgreSQL 10 - Second Edition

You're reading from  Learning PostgreSQL 10 - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781788392013
Pages 488 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Relational Databases PostgreSQL in Action PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks SQL Language Advanced Query Writing Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL OLAP and Data Warehousing Beyond Conventional Data Types Transactions and Concurrency Control PostgreSQL Security The PostgreSQL Catalog Optimizing Database Performance Testing Using PostgreSQL in Python Applications Scalability

View categories


Views in PostgreSQL can be categorized into one of the following categories on the basis of their usage:

  • Temporary views: A temporary view is dropped automatically at the end of a user session. If the TEMPORARY or TEMP keywords are not used, then the life cycle of the view starts with the view creation and ends with the action of dropping it.
  • Recursive views: A recursive view is similar to recursive functions in high-level languages. The view column list should be specified in recursive views. Recursion in relational databases, such as in recursive views or recursive common table expressions (CTEs), can be used to write very complex queries, specifically for hierarchical data.
  • Updatable views: Updatable views allow the user to see the view as a table. This means that the developer can perform INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE on views similar to tables. Updatable views can help in bridging the gap between an object model and a relational model to some extent, and they can help in overcoming...
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