Waiting for PostgreSQL 13 – ALTER TABLE … ALTER COLUMN … DROP EXPRESSION

Title: Waiting for PostgreSQL 13 – ALTER TABLE … ALTER COLUMN … DROP EXPRESSION

On 14th of January 2020, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:

ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... DROP EXPRESSION 
 
Add an ALTER TABLE subcommand for dropping the generated property from
a column, per SQL standard.
 
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/-946e-0453-d841-%402ndquadrant.com

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Waiting for PostgreSQL 12 – Generated columns

On 30th of March 2019, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:

Generated columns
 
This is an SQL-standard feature that allows creating columns that are
computed from expressions rather than assigned, similar to a view or
materialized view but on a column basis.
 
This implements one kind of generated column: stored (computed on
write).  Another kind, virtual (computed on read), is planned for the
future, and some room is left for it.
 
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/-4019-bdb1-699e-@2ndquadrant.com

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Waiting for PostgreSQL 10 – Identity columns

On 6th of April 2017, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:

Identity columns
 
This is the SQL standard-conforming variant of PostgreSQL's serial
columns.  It fixes a few usability issues that serial columns have:
 
- CREATE TABLE / LIKE copies default but refers to same sequence
- cannot add/drop serialness with ALTER TABLE
- dropping default does not drop sequence
- need to grant separate privileges to sequence
- other slight weirdnesses because serial is some kind of special macro

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