Re: Removing pg_migrator limitations

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Removing pg_migrator limitations
Date: 2009-12-24 16:19:06
Message-ID: 932.1261671546@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> I thought of a cleaner approach. CREATE TYPE ENUM will create one enum
> with the specified oid, and then a server-side function will call
> EnumValuesCreate() be used to add each additional enum with a specified
> oid --- no deleting necessary. I will start working on a patch for
> this.

The approach I originally suggested was to create the enum type with
*no* members, and then add the values one at a time. It might take a
tweak to the CREATE TYPE AS ENUM grammar to allow zero members, but
I don't see any logical problem with such a thing.

regards, tom lane

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