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> > 3. Radical alternative: Collapse everything into one new column.  We
> > could combine atthasdef and attgenerated and even attidentity into a new
> > column.  (Only one of the three can be the case.)  This would give
> > client code a clean break, which may or may not be good.  The
> > implementation would be uglier than #1 but probably cleaner than #2.  We
> > could also get 4 bytes back per pg_attribute row.
> >
> > I'm happy with the current choice #1, but it's worth thinking about.
>
> #3 looks very appealing in my opinion as those columns have no overlap,
> so it would take five possible values:
>

Could the removed columns live on...as generated-always columns?

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