From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Cc: Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com>
Cc: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Subject: Re: Doc: fix the rewrite condition when executing ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:56:37 +0200
Message-ID: <202504281656.alpwucugnowc@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aAkVSY7pGg4SxSNp@nathan>
On 2025-Apr-23, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 11:37:20AM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > I'd add a note about these two things to the open items page, and wait
> > to see if we get some of these limitations fixed, so that if we don't,
> > we remember to note this limitation in the documentation.
>
> Are we still waiting on something for this, or should we proceed with the
> documentation changes? It doesn't seem tremendously urgent, but I noticed
> it's been about a month since the last message on this thread.
I've edited the Open Items page to disclaim my responsibility from this
item, since this comes from virtual generated columns which is not my
turf. I think we should just document the current state of affairs; we
can come back with further code improvements during the next cycle.
Thanks,
--
Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"This is a foot just waiting to be shot" (Andrew Dunstan)
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