Re: Virtual generated columns

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-02-04T22:36:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Expand virtual generated columns for ALTER COLUMN TYPE

  2. Eliminate code duplication in replace_rte_variables callbacks

  3. Expand virtual generated columns in the planner

  4. Virtual generated columns

  5. Additional tests for stored generated columns

  6. Improve generated_stored test

  7. Fix handling of CREATE DOMAIN with GENERATED constraint syntax

  8. Add pg_constraint rows for not-null constraints

  9. Put generated_stored test objects in a schema

  10. Rename regress test generated to generated_stored

  11. Small code simplification

  12. Remove useless code

  13. Remove useless initializations

  14. doc: Clarify that pg_attrdef also stores generation expressions

  15. Clean out column-level pg_init_privs entries when dropping tables.

  16. Re-implement the ereport() macro using __VA_ARGS__.

On 28.01.25 10:40, Shlok Kyal wrote:
> Test 5: Update publication on non virtual gen with no column list specified
> 
> CREATE TABLE t1 (a int, b int GENERATED ALWAYS AS (a * 2) VIRTUAL);
> create publication pub1 for table t1;
> alter table t1 replica identity full;
> update t1 set a = 10;
> 
> No error is thrown, and an update is happening. It should have thrown
> an ERROR as the unpublished generated column 'b' is part of the
> replica identity.

Thanks, I have fixed that in v14.  (The other 4 tests were correct, right?)