On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 8:15 PM Дмитрий Иванов <firstdis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why are COLUMN GENERATED ALWAYS AS called "methods" and singled out as a > separate field type? > This sounds like you are describing something written. Can you provide a link to where that is? Is there a common name in the community for the approach in which the data > schema is presented as data? > Which community? There are many ways in which a "data schema [can be] presented as data". In PostgreSQL there is only a single source of truth for what the data schema is - the "System Catalogs" [1]. Those tables are made available to the user in the pg_catalog schema. [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalogs.html David J.