Re: generated columns

From: Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>
To: Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: generated columns
Date: 2017-10-02 18:10:43
Message-ID: 20171002181042.GI1251@localhost
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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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