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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: generated columns
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 13:10:43 -0500
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 12:50:14PM -0400, Adam Brusselback wrote:
> I know that for my use-cases, having both options available would be very
> appreciated.  The vast majority of the computed columns I would use in my
> database would be okay to compute on read.  But there are for sure some
> which would be performance prohibitive to have compute on read, so i'd
> rather have those stored.
> 
> So for me, i'd rather default to compute on read, as long storing the
> pre-computed value is an option when necessary.

Sure, I agree.  I was just wondering whether there might be any other
difference besides performance characteristics.  The answer to that is,
I think, "no".


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