CREATE VIEW
The CREATE VIEW statement saves a SELECT statement as a queryable object, similar to a table. Views in TiDB are non-materialized. This means that as a view is queried, TiDB will internally rewrite the query to combine the view definition with the SQL query.
Synopsis
CreateViewStmt:
OrReplace:
ViewAlgorithm:
ViewDefiner:
ViewSQLSecurity:
ViewName:
ViewFieldList:
ViewCheckOption:
Examples
mysql> CREATE TABLE t1 (id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, c1 INT NOT NULL);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)
mysql> INSERT INTO t1 (c1) VALUES (1),(2),(3),(4),(5);
Query OK, 5 rows affected (0.03 sec)
Records: 5 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
mysql> CREATE VIEW v1 AS SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE c1 > 2;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)
mysql> SELECT * FROM t1;
+----+----+
| id | c1 |
+----+----+
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 5 |
+----+----+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> SELECT * FROM v1;
+----+----+
| id | c1 |
+----+----+
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 5 |
+----+----+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> INSERT INTO t1 (c1) VALUES (6);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT * FROM v1;
+----+----+
| id | c1 |
+----+----+
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 5 |
| 6 | 6 |
+----+----+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> INSERT INTO v1 (c1) VALUES (7);
ERROR 1105 (HY000): insert into view v1 is not supported now.
MySQL compatibility
- Views in TiDB are not currently insertable or updatable.