Re: extensible enum types

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: extensible enum types
Date: 2010-06-18 23:59:45
Message-ID: 4C1C0871.8080500@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
>> And how would it be per data-type?
>>
>
> Well, there'd be two kinds of enums, just as you were saying before.
> I'm not sure how we'd expose that to users exactly, or whether there
> could be provisions for switching a type's behavior after creation.
>
>
>

I'd be a whole lot happier if we didn't have to do that. I've been
trying to wrack my brain for some clever way to avoid it (so far without
success).

cheers

andrew

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