Re: [PATCH] Alter or rename enum value

From: ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org (Dagfinn Ilmari =?utf-8?Q?Manns=C3=A5ker?=)
To: emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Matthias Kurz <m(dot)kurz(at)irregular(dot)at>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alter or rename enum value
Date: 2016-09-07 11:17:17
Message-ID: d8jk2eoyn5u.fsf@dalvik.ping.uio.no
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Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com> writes:

>> Bottom line here is that I'd rather commit ALTER TYPE RENAME VALUE with
>> no EXISTS features and then see it accrete those features together with
>> other types of RENAME, when and if there's a will to make that happen.
>
> This sounds like a good conclusion to me.

Works for me. I mainly added the IF [NOT] EXISTS support to be
consistent with ADD VALUE, and because I like idempotency, but I'm not
married to it.

Here is version 6 of the patch, which just adds RENAME VALUE with no IF
[NOT] EXISTS, rebased onto current master (particularly the
transactional ADD VALUE patch).

Attachment Content-Type Size
0001-Add-ALTER-TYPE-RENAME-VALUE-TO-v6.patch text/x-diff 12.9 KB

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