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In both partitioning and traditional inheritance, require child columns to be GENERATED if and only if their parent(s) are. Formerly we allowed the case of an inherited column being GENERATED when its parent isn't, but that results in inconsistent behavior: the column can be directly updated through an UPDATE on the parent table, leading to it containing a user-supplied value that might not match the generation expression. This also fixes an oversight that we enforced partition-key-columns-can't- be-GENERATED against parent tables, but not against child tables that were dynamically attached to them. Also, remove the restriction that the child's generation expression be equivalent to the parent's. In the wake of commit 3f7836ff6, there doesn't seem to be any reason that we need that restriction, since generation expressions are always computed per-table anyway. By removing this, we can also allow a child to merge multiple inheritance parents with inconsistent generation expressions, by overriding them with its own expression, much as we've long allowed for DEFAULT expressions. Since we're rejecting a case that we used to accept, this doesn't seem like a back-patchable change. Given the lack of field complaints about the inconsistent behavior, it's likely that no one is doing this anyway, but we won't change it in minor releases. Amit Langote and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2793383.1672944799@sss.pgh.pa.us
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