Sounds like the generated column implementation is faster than a PL/pgSQL trigger. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21134706 https://news.ycombinator.com/i

Sounds like the generated column implementation is faster than a PL/pgSQL trigger. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21134706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21134706 I don’t have a link at hand from a discussion on the mailing list, but I’ll take Peter’s word for it.