| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: add label to enum syntax |
| Date: | 2010-10-25 18:05:30 |
| Message-ID: | EEEB76B2-1992-4297-8192-4219B83044C3@kineticode.com |
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On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I can see the point of that, but I don't find LABEL to be a particularly
> great name for the elements of an enum type, and so I'm not in favor of
> institutionalizing that name in the syntax. How about ADD VALUE?
From the fine manual:
> The second form of CREATE TYPE creates an enumerated (enum) type, as described in Section 8.7. Enum types take a list of one or more quoted labels, each of which must be less than NAMEDATALEN bytes long (64 in a standard PostgreSQL build).
So the docs have called them "labels" for quite some time.
David
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