Re: [HACKERS] generated columns

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Jaime Casanova <jaime.casanova@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2018-11-06T12:27:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 30/10/2018 16:14, Sergei Kornilov wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I applied this patch on top 2fe42baf7c1ad96b5f9eb898161e258315298351 commit and found a bug while adding STORED column:
> 
> postgres=# create table test(i int);
> CREATE TABLE
> postgres=# insert into test values (1),(2);
> INSERT 0 2
> postgres=# alter table test add column gen_stored integer GENERATED ALWAYS AS ((i * 2)) STORED;
> ALTER TABLE
> postgres=# alter table test add column gen_virt integer GENERATED ALWAYS AS ((i * 2));
> ALTER TABLE
> postgres=# table test;
>  i | gen_stored | gen_virt 
> ---+------------+----------
>  1 |            |        2
>  2 |            |        4
> 
> Virtual columns was calculated on table read and its ok, but stored column does not update table data.

This is a small bug that I will fix in my next update.

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Commits

  1. Generated columns

  2. Add walreceiver API to get remote server version

  3. Add pg_partition_tree to display information about partitions

  4. pg_restore: Augment documentation for -N option

  5. Change delimiter used for display of NextXID