Re: WIP: extensible enums

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: extensible enums
Date: 2010-11-12 18:55:18
Message-ID: 14331.1289588118@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 11/12/2010 01:40 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> FYI, I marked the TODO item for adding enums as completed. The TODO
>> item used to also mention renaming or removing enums, but I have seen
>> few requests for that so I removed that suggestion. We can always
>> re-add it if there is demand.

> Renaming an item would not be terribly hard. Removing one is that nasty
> case. There are all sorts of places the old value could be referred to:
> table data, view definitions, check constraints, functions etc.

Well, you can rename an item today if you don't mind doing a direct
UPDATE on pg_enum. I think that's probably sufficient if the demand
only amounts to one or two requests a year. I'd say leave it off the
TODO list till we see if there's more demand than that.

regards, tom lane

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