News: Materialized Views
In the earlier article about upcoming features, “Roadmap”, there was no mention of materialized views. The explanation is simple: they’re not on the roadmap. Yet.
However, this is one of the things that might change. There is a strong desire for materialized views, and one of MySQL’s architects has a strong interest (he wrote his PhD thesis on the topic). So if their absence from the “Roadmap” article troubled you, despair not. Keep watching this space and maybe there will be further news someday.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
See worklog tasks:
“Materialized Views (Reduced Support)”:
http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=2866
May 19th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Heh. You don’t need to tell me about WL#2866. I wrote it. The “strong desire” is for a little more than that though.