Re: [PATCH] Proposal for HIDDEN/INVISIBLE column

Le 28/10/2021 à 16:31, Bruce Momjian a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Gilles Darold wrote:
>> Fixed with new patch version v7 attached. It also fixes unwanted change
>> of some regression tests output reported by the cfbot because I forgot
>> to change my locale.
>>
>>
>> I will also add a pg_dump test to verify that ALTER ... SET UNEXPANDED
>> statements are well generated in the dump.
> I want to state I still think this feature is not generally desired, and
> is better implemented at the query level.

I think that with an implementation at query level we will cover the
user need but not the developer need to "hide" technical columns, and
also it does not cover the INSERT statement without column.

Personally I will not try to convince more I'm lacking of arguments, I
just wanted to attach a full working patch to test the proposal. So
unless there is more persons interested by this feature I suggest us to
not waste more time on this proposal.

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Gilles Darold