Re: [HACKERS] generated columns

On 2019-03-31 05:49, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> STORED in a 
> file_fdw foreign table still silently creates the column which then 
> turns out to be useless on SELECT, with an error like:
> 
> "ERROR:  column some_column_name is a generated column
> DETAIL:  Generated columns cannot be used in COPY."
> 
> Maybe it'd be possible to get an error earlier, i.e., while trying to 
> create such a useless column?

I'll look into it.

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