Re: ALTER COLUMN ... SET EXPRESSION to alter stored generated column's expression - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: ALTER COLUMN ... SET EXPRESSION to alter stored generated column's expression
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Msg-id 91fda353-8974-5c2f-54b3-4a0af42d93eb@eisentraut.org
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In response to Re: ALTER COLUMN ... SET EXPRESSION to alter stored generated column's expression  (Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>)
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Re: ALTER COLUMN ... SET EXPRESSION to alter stored generated column's expression
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On 28.08.23 11:54, Amul Sul wrote:
> Thanks for the review comments, I have fixed those in the attached 
> version. In
> addition to that, extended syntax to have the STORE keyword as suggested by
> Vik.

An additional comment: When you change the generation expression, you 
need to run ON UPDATE triggers on all rows, if there are any triggers 
defined.  That is because someone could have triggers defined on the 
column to either check for valid values or propagate values somewhere 
else, and if the expression changes, that is kind of like an UPDATE.

Similarly, I think we should consider how logical decoding should handle 
this operation.  I'd imagine it should generate UPDATE events on all 
rows.  A test case in test_decoding would be useful.




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