On Mon, 2026-08-24 at 22:03 +0200, Alberto Piai wrote: > > I was wondering about this hint: > > > > Use this command on the root table/partition without ONLY. > > > > You can never turn a column of a partition into a generated column, right? > > How about > > > > Use the command on the partition root without specifying ONLY. > > Since this is also taking care of classic inheritance, it seems strange > to only mention partitions. But I see that this way it's confusing (and > I do concede that partitioning might be the more widely used of the two) > so I switched it around to "on the root partition/table without > specifying ONLY". Does that make more sense?
My problem is that there is no "root partition". Perhaps Use the command on the partitioning or inheritance root without specifying ONLY. > > This detail message is longer than 80 characters: > > > > Converting a column to a stored generated column can only be done on the > > whole hierarchy at once. > > > > How about > > > > Converting only part of a partitioning/inheritance hierarchy is not > > supported. > > Much better, fixed. I am having second thoughts about the slash. Perhaps it would be better to use "or" instead. Yours, Laurenz Albe
