Re: pg_restore - generated column - not populating

On 26.04.21 15:40, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I suspect this example is revealing bugs in both the backend
>> (ATTACH PARTITION ought to take care of this, no?) and pg_dump
>> (the backend can't be blamed for pg_dump's choices of columns
>> to dump).  Peter?
>
> The backend side of this would be fixed by the proposed
> <https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ac35da1c-e746-ea19-bfc3-84819a4e907d%40enterprisedb.com>
> (it's the same code for ALTER TABLE ... INHERIT and ATTACH PARTITION).
>
> The pg_dump side can apparently be fixed by adding
>
> diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/common.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/common.c
> index 1a261a5545..c210883ca3 100644
> --- a/src/bin/pg_dump/common.c
> +++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/common.c
> @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ flagInhAttrs(DumpOptions *dopt, TableInfo *tblinfo,
> int numTables)
>            }
>
>            /* Remove generation expression from child */
> -           if (foundGenerated && !dopt->binary_upgrade)
> +           if (foundGenerated && !dopt->binary_upgrade &&
> !tbinfo->ispartition)
>                tbinfo->attrdefs[j] = NULL;
>        }
>    }
>
> Looks like this was accidentally broken by the last minor release's
> fixes in this area.

Both of these issues have been fixed and will be in the next minor releases.