Re: Virtual generated columns

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Virtual generated columns
Date: 2025-01-14 09:58:20
Message-ID: aede1a3b-2b87-435d-84bf-eeede3ee95e4@eisentraut.org
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On 09.01.25 13:41, jian he wrote:
> we can not ALTER COLUMN DROP EXPRESSION for virtual for now.
> so the following comments in generated_virtual.sql conflict with the output.
> ```
> -- check that dependencies between columns have also been removed
> ALTER TABLE gtest29 DROP COLUMN a; -- should not drop b
> \d gtest29
> ```
> we can also comment out line 557 in generated_virtual.sql.

Ok will do.

> attach patch is removing unnecessary parentheses from
> ```ereport(ERROR, (errcode```
> only for this patch related.
> per commit https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=e3a87b4991cc2d00b7a3082abb54c5f12baedfd1
>
> also https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/error-message-reporting.html says
> ""The extra parentheses were required before PostgreSQL version 12,
> but are now optional.""

Right. I tried to keep it mostly consistent with existing surrounding
code, but I will do another pass to improve that.

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