[QGIS-Developer] QGIS-Developer Digest, Vol 165, Issue 24

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi all,


> Here is a quite interesting new feature in PostgreSQL 12:
>
> https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/generated-columns-in-postgresql-12/
>
> It is similar to virtual columns in QGIS.
>
> I suspect that users will want to use that new column type. What does
> this mean for QGIS? I guess QGIS will have to detect this new column
> type in the future and mark it as "immutable". So other columns are
> read/write, but generated columns will be read only. Does QGIS already
> support a concept like this where some columns are read/write and others
> not

speaking about unsupported postgresql features it would also be very
useful supporting correctly column permissions, the last time I
checked (not recentli I admit) it didn't worked at all in QGIS.

cheers!

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