Re: FOR PORTION OF does not recompute GENERATED STORED columns that depend on the range column

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Cc: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <satyanarlapuram@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-06-04T09:58:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 26.05.26 00:23, Paul A Jungwirth wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 8:25 AM Paul A Jungwirth
> <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 12:10 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> <v11-0001-Fix-FOR-PORTION-OF-column-dependency-tracking.patch><v11-0002-Fix-FOR-PORTION-OF-with-partitions-and-inheritan.patch>
>>>
>>> Thanks for updating the patch and making the separation. After reading v11, I still have a few comments for 0001.
>> . . .
>>
>> v12 attached.
> 
> After discussing this as PGConf.dev, Peter and I agreed that we
> *should* be checking for UPDATE permission on the application-time
> column. So we need to add the attno to updatedCols on the
> RTEPermissionInfo. That is great, because it fixes GENERATED column
> dependency tracking and also UPDATE OF triggers, without the
> complexity of changing ExecGetUpdatedCols.
> 
> Note we still do not require INSERT permission for the temporal
> leftovers, which is what the SQL Standard says and also makes sense
> semantically, since those leftovers represent already-existing
> history.
> 
> No RLS changes are needed because RLS policies aren't checked based on
> *column* changes.
> 
> We still need a fix for non-partitioning inheritance, but the patch
> becomes a lot simpler.
> 
> Here is a patch adding the application-time column to updatedCols,
> along with the tests we've written for GENERATED columns and UPDATE OF
> triggers.

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  1. Small terminology fixes in comments

  2. Require UPDATE permission on FOR PORTION OF column