Re: Virtual generated columns

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

To: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>

Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>

Date: 2025-02-07T12:34:47Z

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Expand virtual generated columns for ALTER COLUMN TYPE
- 5069fef1cfae 18.0 landed
Eliminate code duplication in replace_rte_variables callbacks
- 363a6e8c6fcf 18.0 landed
Expand virtual generated columns in the planner
- 1e4351af329f 18.0 landed
Virtual generated columns
- 83ea6c54025b 18.0 landed
Additional tests for stored generated columns
- 41084409f635 18.0 landed
Improve generated_stored test
- 44b61efb7928 18.0 landed
- 86749ea3b766 18.0 landed
Fix handling of CREATE DOMAIN with GENERATED constraint syntax
- 84a67725cd11 18.0 landed
Add pg_constraint rows for not-null constraints
- 14e87ffa5c54 18.0 cited
Put generated_stored test objects in a schema
- 894be11adfa6 18.0 landed
Rename regress test generated to generated_stored
- b9ed4969250d 18.0 landed
Small code simplification
- 7ff9afbbd1df 18.0 landed
Remove useless code
- e26d313bad92 18.0 landed
Remove useless initializations
- da2aeba8f533 18.0 landed
doc: Clarify that pg_attrdef also stores generation expressions
- da486d360103 18.0 landed
Clean out column-level pg_init_privs entries when dropping tables.
- 76618097a6c0 17.0 cited
Re-implement the ereport() macro using __VA_ARGS__.
- e3a87b4991cc 13.0 cited

On 06.02.25 00:25, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 22:36, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, this is quite contorted.  I have renamed it like you suggested.
> 
> I looked over this again and I think the patch is in good shape to be committed.

I've committed it.  Thanks.

> One thought that occurred to me was whether it would be better for the
> psql describe output (and maybe also pg_dump) to explicitly output
> "virtual" for columns of this kind. I know that that's the default for
> generated columns, but someone reading the output might not know or
> remember that, so perhaps it would be helpful to be explicit.

My preference was to have the default output format use only 
SQL-standard syntax, not extensions like "VIRTUAL".  If people hate 
this, we can easily change it.