Re: Doc: fix the rewrite condition when executing ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: Doc: fix the rewrite condition when executing ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN
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In response to Re: Doc: fix the rewrite condition when executing ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN  (Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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This one was briefly discussed in an RMT meeting.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 11:37:20AM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Mar-24, jian he wrote:
> 
>> In the current development branch,
>> virtual generated columns still do not support the domain.
>> you can not change the generation expression if it contains a check
>> constraint on it.
>> so virtual generated columns don't need rewriting.
>> 
>> IMHO, the committed doc description didn't mention this exception.
>> we need some text to cover this exception?
> 
> I'd add a note about these two things to the open items page, and wait
> to see if we get some of these limitations fixed, so that if we don't,
> we remember to note this limitation in the documentation.

Are we still waiting on something for this, or should we proceed with the
documentation changes?  It doesn't seem tremendously urgent, but I noticed
it's been about a month since the last message on this thread.

-- 
nathan



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