Re: [HACKERS] generated columns

On 2019-04-01 10:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

I've been trying to create a test case for file_fdw for this, but I'm
not getting your result.  Can you send a complete test case?

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