Re: Non-Stored Generated Columns

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Non-Stored Generated Columns
Date: 2024-02-29 10:25:57
Message-ID: 202402291025.lwqdf266xun5@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2024-Feb-29, Dominique Devienne wrote:

> Honestly, I'm not sure why supporting the non-stored variant of generated
> columns is so controversial...

I don't think there's anything controversial about virtual generated
columns, really ... it's just that it's tricky to implement and we don't
have it yet. I have interest in working on something related that might
allow us to implement virtual generated columns later, but it's not for
the near future.

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