Add support for generated columns skipping 'GENERATED ALWAYS' keywords #1058
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SQLite, Mysql and DuckDB all let you skip the words
GENERATED ALWAYS
, and useAS
to introduce a column generated from an expression. See the links in #1051 for details.I've introduced an extra field in
ColumnOption::Generated
-generated_kw
is true if theGENERATED
keyword is present, and false if the SQL skips directly toAS
. I'm not sure of the naming, but it's the best I've thought of so far. Currently, ifgeneration_expr
is None,generated_kw
can only be true (and is assumed to be when recreating the SQL).Perhaps a neater design would be to have different
ColumnOption
kinds for generated-from-expression vs. generated-from-sequence vs. whatever else. But that would require an API break again.Closes #1050.