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Add option for specifying stored/virtual on computed columns#20540

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@roji roji commented Apr 5, 2020

Closes #6682

Cross-database situation

Database Stored name Virtual name Default Docs
SQL Server PERSISTED <empty> <empty> (virtual) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/tables/
Sqlite STORED VIRTUAL VIRTUAL https://www.sqlite.org/gencol.html
PostgreSQL STORED VIRTUAL (not yet implemented) None, STORED must currently be specified https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/ddl-generated-columns.html
MySQL STORED VIRTUAL VIRTUAL https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/create-table-generated-columns.html

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  • tl;dr everyone calls it STORED except for SQL Server (surprise) which calls it PERSISTED. So I chose STORED as our naming.
  • This currently introduces a new ComputedColumnIsStored annotation alongside ComputedColumnSql. @AndriySvyryd I know you prefer to merge annotations where possible for perf, but I'm hesitant to encode both SQL and other info in the same annotation string. We can change the annotation format to <IsStored>,<SQL> and identify old annotations not starting with true/false and a comma, but since SQL is arbitrary SQL it seems a bit dangerous.
  • If we keep two annotations, what should be the behavior of HasComputedColumnSql accepting IConventionPropertyBuilder? Should we have two separate ones - one for the SQL annotation and another for the IsStored - or one which checks both and only updates if both are settable? Or each one if it's settable?
  • Note that this introduces a binary break by adding a default argument to HasComputedColumnSql (but recompiling is OK). If we want to avoid this we can add an overload instead.
  • Instead of a stored bool we could have a ComputedColumnType enum (Stored/Virtual), but this seems needless verbose/heavy.

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For IConventionPropertyBuilder we should have two separate methods

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roji commented Apr 12, 2020

For IConventionPropertyBuilder we should have two separate methods

Thanks, done (HasComputedColumnIsStored is somewhat weird naming but consistent etc.)

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IsStoredComputedColumn would be better IMO

@roji roji force-pushed the ComputedColumnTypes branch 2 times, most recently from 5233bc7 to 2f6ca83 Compare April 14, 2020 14:56
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roji commented Apr 14, 2020

Rebased on latest master (resolving conflicts with #20602), squashed and renamed HasComputedColumnIsStored->IsStoredComputedColumn

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Also add validation for properties mapped to the same column

@roji roji force-pushed the ComputedColumnTypes branch from 2f6ca83 to d64e341 Compare April 22, 2020 08:13
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roji commented Apr 22, 2020

Thanks @AndriySvyryd!

@roji roji merged commit f192a90 into master Apr 22, 2020
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Allow specifying whether computed columns are stored or virtual

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