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| From: | Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Bikeshedding on enum vocabulary |
| Date: | 2010-10-27 15:16:03 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTi=aHU0uR=vrztJsbHUGYZY_RfEqvX+bU-29Ji3Y@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Wow, this must be the most difficult smallest thing I have ever seen
> discussed in pg-hackers. It doesn't seem like there are enough votes
> in any particular direction. Now *this* is proper bikeshedding.
>
> Should we ask more openly in another thread, with a different, more
> catchy subject?
Well, as someone coming to enums from a C/C++ background, element is
the last thing I would have thought. _My_ scale of intuitiveness is:
1) label (my normal vocabulary when talking about enums)
2) identifier [constant] (when talking spec-type jargon)
Never have I thought of the enum label as either a "value", or an
"element". That's not to say anyone else hasn't thought of them
differently. Obvously ;-)
</bikeshed>
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| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Bikeshedding on enum vocabulary |
| Date: | 2010-10-27 16:24:41 |
| Message-ID: | 1D40F263-3A26-4E1B-B5FC-59DFB6C13035@kineticode.com |
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On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> Well, as someone coming to enums from a C/C++ background, element is
> the last thing I would have thought. _My_ scale of intuitiveness is:
>
> 1) label (my normal vocabulary when talking about enums)
> 2) identifier [constant] (when talking spec-type jargon)
>
> Never have I thought of the enum label as either a "value", or an
> "element". That's not to say anyone else hasn't thought of them
> differently. Obvously ;-)
I suggest "color".
ALTER ENUM hair_colors ADD COLOR 'blue';
Or anything at all.
ALTER ENUM planets ADD PLANET 'x';
Best,
David, pedaling away after tagging the bikeshed