Materialized Views appear twice - under MV and under tables

Question

Hi,
I've encountered a wierd issue.
It seems that every materialized view is also appearing under the tables tab.
For example sh.cal_month_sales_mv. Another example, run this as sh:
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW SH.OFIR_MV
REFRESH FORCE ON DEMAND
ENABLE QUERY REWRITE
AS SELECT sum(s.amount_sold) AS dollars
FROM sales s;
You'll see a table OFIR_MV under the table tab. If you try to drop it(right-click-> table-> drop), you get ora-12083 must use DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW to drop "SH"."OFIR_MV"
Also, SQL tab of the "table" has the folowing remark
-- DBMS_METADATA was unable to use TABLE_EXPORT to generate sql. Now trying to use TABLE
I guess this is the source of the issue:
select object_name,object_type from user_objects where object_name = 'OFIR_MV';
OBJECT_NAME OBJECT_TYPE
OFIR_MV TABLE
OFIR_MV MATERIALIZED VIEW
2 rows selected
So, creating a MV also adds a table to user_objects/tables. (Huh? that suprised me)
Could SQL Dev filter these fake tables or at least have a different icon/color for them?
Thanks.
Ofir
BTW - Win XP, 10.2.0.3EE, SQL Dev 1.1.1.25.14

Answer 1

e.g Re: Materialized Views, indexes and Raptor Eeerrr... no.
That user wanted to be able to access indexes, etc., which he thought could be easily accomplished by adding the MV to the tables node.
To what the response was: the options on the MV will be improved (which it has), NOT bringing it in the tables node. As Ofir also pointed out, there's a reason for it not belonging there: the operations performed on the objects of the table node expect tables, not MVs.
So, between fixing the tables node for accepting MVs and it's operations, and just removing the MVs from the node, I'd go for the second, faster, more correct solution.
K.