On 5/23/19 5:50 PM, Tobias Bussmann wrote: > while reading though the docs of the upcoming pg12 features, I > stumbled upon some wording regarding generated columns: both in > create_table.sgml [1] and create_foreign_table.sgml [2] the paragraph > for the GENERATED ALWAYS AS clause is introduced with >> This clause creates the column as a generated column. The column >> cannot be written to, and when read it will be computed from the >> specified expression.
> To me this sounds confusing, if not wrong. Till v8 of the patch were > STORED and VIRTUAL generated columns were described afterwards this > was less obvious but now with only STORED it sounds like a reference > to the VIRTUAL variant. No doubt this is flat out wrong. > Not being I native english speaker I'm restrained to send a patch but > may I suggest the following for discussion: > The column cannot be written to, and when read the result of the > specified expression will be returned. That sounds reasonable to me. Joe -- Crunchy Data - http://crunchydata.com PostgreSQL Support for Secure Enterprises Consulting, Training, & Open Source Development
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