Re: Virtual generated columns

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Virtual generated columns
Date: 2024-11-05 16:19:01
Message-ID: 1ecb4ea9-06a6-425b-ac5c-20d0e0d2ac1f@eisentraut.org
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On 16.09.24 11:22, jian he wrote:
> in v7.
>
> doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
> <phrase>and <replaceable
> class="parameter">column_constraint</replaceable> is:</phrase>
>
> section need representation of:
> GENERATED ALWAYS AS ( <replaceable>generation_expr</replaceable> ) [VIRTUAL]

I have addressed this in patch v8.

> in RelationBuildTupleDesc(Relation relation)
> we need to add "constr->has_generated_virtual" for the following code?
>
> if (constr->has_not_null ||
> constr->has_generated_stored ||
> ndef > 0 ||
> attrmiss ||
> relation->rd_rel->relchecks > 0)

fixed in v8

> also seems there will be table_rewrite for adding virtual generated
> columns, but we can avoid that.
> The attached patch is the change and the tests.
>
> i've put the tests in src/test/regress/sql/fast_default.sql,
> since it already has event triggers and trigger functions, we don't
> want to duplicate it.

Also added in v8.

Thanks!

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