Re: Pgoutput not capturing the generated columns

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >
> > > I have pushed the remaining part of this patch. Now, we can review the
> > > proposed documentation part.
> > >
> > > I feel we don't need the Examples sub-section for this part of the
> > > docs. The behavior is quite clear from the "Behavior Summary"
> > > sub-section table.
> >
> > It is good to hear that the "Behavior Summary" matrix is clear, but it
> > is never the purpose of examples to show behaviour that is not already
> > clearly documented. The examples are simply to demonstrate some real
> > usage. Personally, I find it far easier to understand this (or any
> > other) feature by working through a few examples in conjunction with
> > the behaviour matrix, instead of just having the matrix and nothing
> > else.
> >
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> I am not against giving examples in the docs to make the topic easy to
> understand but in this particular case, I am not sure if additional
> examples are useful. You already gave one example in the beginning:
> "For example, note below that subscriber table generated column value
> comes from the subscriber column's calculation." the remaining text is
> clear enough to understand the feature.
>
> If you still want to make a case for additional examples, divide this
> patch into two parts. The first part without examples could be part of
> this thread and I can commit that. Then you can start a separate
> thread just for the examples and then we can see what others think and
> make a decision based on that.
>

I have created a new thread [1] to propose adding the "Examples" subsection.

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[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHut%2BPt_7GV8eHSW4XQsC6rF13TWrz-SrGeeiV71%3DSE14DC4Jg%40mail.gmail.com

Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia