Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [HACKERS] generated columns
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>,
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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On 12/31/17 12:54, Joe Conway wrote:
> Anyway, I have seen requests for change data capture
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_data_capture) in Postgres which is
> apparently available in our competition without requiring the use of
> triggers. Perhaps that is yet a different feature, but I was hopeful
> that this mechanism could be used to achieve it.

I think logical decoding provides CDC.  The generated columns feature
doesn't have much to do with that, in my mind.

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