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Materialized Views in Postgres: Trading Freshness for Speed
How to use materialized views to speed up expensive aggregations in Postgres without silently serving stale data to your users.
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How to use materialized views to speed up expensive aggregations in Postgres without silently serving stale data to your users.

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