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by cwillu 191 days ago
Or indexes, which are after all a structured way of duplicating data for performance, sometimes so much so that they entirely replace the actual table row lookup.
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Yepp, making exactly that same point in the post:

> This is why we have indexes in databases, which, if you squint a little, are just another kind of materialized view, at least in their covering form.