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

Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>

From: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
To: Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <satyanarlapuram@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-05-07T04:34:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

> On May 7, 2026, at 01:13, Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 4:39 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 05.05.26 23:50, Paul A Jungwirth wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 11:03 AM Paul A Jungwirth
>>> <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Good catch! I removed that line in v7 (attached). I also included your
>>>> test change to compute the range len by hand. Also a rebase was
>>>> necessary after d3bba04154.
>>> 
>>> This needed a rebase. v8 attached.
>> 
>> This patch fails the injection_points/isolation test for me.  It looks
>> like it causes a server crash.  Check please.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't have injection_points enabled, but now I see it too.
> The attached v9 fixes it.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> -- 
> Paul              ~{:-)
> pj@illuminatedcomputing.com
> <v9-0001-Fix-some-problems-with-UPDATE-FOR-PORTION-OF.patch>

Hi Paul,

I didn’t review this patch earlier because, from the subject, I thought it was only about recomputing generated stored columns. I just noticed that the patch also changes the inheritance-table path, and I posted another patch for the inheritance-table bug. Please see [1].

I tried applying the new tests from my patch on top of this patch, and it looks like this patch still does not fix the multi-inheritance case.

So I’d like to check with you how we should proceed. I think there are two options:

1. Keep this patch focused on the generated-column issue described in the subject, and use my patch to fix the inheritance-table bug.
2. I can continue from this patch and extend it to fix the multi-inheritance case as well.

Please let me know what you prefer.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4245F94D-84F1-4E05-BF81-C458A6CF9901%40gmail.com

Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/