# Support for materialized views and views

**URL:** <https://community.directus.com/t/support-for-materialized-views-and-views/533>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 11, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/support-for-materialized-views-and-views/533 "2025-06-11T02:58:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Noel\_Soong](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.directus.com/noel_soong/32/160_2.png) [@Noel\_Soong](https://community.directus.com/u/Noel_Soong)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/support-for-materialized-views-and-views/533/1 "2025-06-11T02:58:11Z")

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Hi are there any plans to support views and materialised views in directus?

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**Author:** ![bryantgillespie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.directus.com/bryantgillespie/32/33_2.png) [@bryantgillespie](https://community.directus.com/u/bryantgillespie)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/support-for-materialized-views-and-views/533/2 "2025-06-12T18:19:12Z")

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This has discussed a lot in GH and internally. Of course, we’d love to support it. But the reality is “it’s complicated” (as is standard for a lot of development work 😅 ).

Unfortunately, I can’t definitively say one way or the other.

I’d recommend checking out this thread on SQL view support on GitHub.

> **[\[RFC\] Proposal: Support views, materialized views and foreign tables ·...](https://github.com/directus/directus/discussions/17265)**
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> In this proposal, any mention of "views" will reference "views, materialized views and foreign tables", as long as the vendors support it. Goal The general idea is to support views, materialized vi...