At 05:03 AM 9/18/2004, Alexander Klenin wrote:

> > and because their are either performance burdens
> >to the underlying tables, or horribly inconsistent.
>
>Well, the fact that Oracle's implementation is perhaps
>suboptimal does not, in itself, mean that Firebird is
>unable to do better ;)

OK. Should a materialized view track changes to the
underlying table or is it a static snapshot of their
one time state?

Regards,


Ann