Re: Virtual generated columns

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-01-14T09:42:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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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 09.01.25 09:38, jian he wrote:
>> create user foo;
>> create user bar;
>> grant create on schema public to foo;
>> \c - foo
>> create table t1 (id int, ccnum text, ccredacted text generated always as
>> (repeat('*', 12) || substr(ccnum, 13, 4)) virtual);
>> grant select (id, ccredacted) on table t1 to bar;
>> insert into t1 values (1, '1234567890123456');
>> \c - bar
>> select * from t1;  -- permission denied
>> select id, ccredacted from t1;  -- ok
> 
> I think this is expected.
> however once the user can access the pg_catalog,
> then he can use pg_get_expr
> figure out the generation expression.
> 
> so here "bar" can figure out the column value of ccnum, i think.

Having access to the expression definition doesn't help you reverse the 
computation, if the computation itself is not reversible.