Re: WIP: extensible enums

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: extensible enums
Date: 2010-08-23 18:16:45
Message-ID: 8370.1282587405@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> Swami Josh predicts that if we don't add AFTER now, we'll be adding it
> in 2 years when enough people complain about it.

If it's not there, no one will ever miss it. You might as well argue
that there should be a way of creating a foreign key reference by
ALTER'ing the referenced table instead of the referencing table.
Sure, if the SQL committee was into symmetry, they might have provided
such a thing. But they didn't and no one misses it.

regards, tom lane

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