Re: What is the good equivalent for ENUM ?

that's how I'd do it, since in reality, that's all an ENUM is, is a mini
foreign table internalized onto a column in another table.

Vivek Khera wrote:

>>>>>>"SD" == Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> writes:
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>SD> On 3 Sep 2003 at 14:30, Bruno BAGUETTE wrote:
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>>>The problem is that this MySQL database uses ENUM, do you see what can I
>>>do to migrate ENUM into PostgreSQL ?
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>SD> varchar with check constraints. Add constraits to allow only
>SD> certain values of varchar string.
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>I used to do this. It turns out to be horribly inflexible when you
>need to alter the enum values since the constraints cannot easily be
>changed.
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>What I do is create a short table for the enum like this:
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>CREATE TABLE status_levels (
> status varchar(10) PRIMARY KEY
>) WITHOUT OIDS;
>INSERT INTO status_levels (status) VALUES ('active');
>INSERT INTO status_levels (status) VALUES ('overdue');
>INSERT INTO status_levels (status) VALUES ('suspended');
>INSERT INTO status_levels (status) VALUES ('terminated');
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>then reference it via foreign key from the "enum" field:
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>CREATE TABLE whatever (
> ...
>?status varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'active' REFERENCES status_levels(status),
> ...
>);
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