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Understanding Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) in PostgreSQL with pg_ivm Extension

What is Incremental View Maintenance (IVM)? ๐Ÿ”—

pg_ivm Postgres extension

The text discusses Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) and its implementation as a Postgres extension called pg_ivm. It explains the concept of materialized views in PostgreSQL, their advantages, and the limitations associated with manual updates and complete dataset recomputation. The text introduces the pg_ivm extension and its role in providing automatic maintenance for materialized views through incremental updates, allowing for keeping the views current with changes in the underlying data. Furthermore, it explores the use of IVM in conjunction with Change Data Capture (CDC) and streaming databases, highlighting its benefits and differences from traditional streaming database functionality.

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