Re: add label to enum syntax

From: Pavel Golub <pavel(at)microolap(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: add label to enum syntax
Date: 2010-10-28 10:49:48
Message-ID: 124652227.20101028134948@gf.microolap.com
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Hello, Andrew.

You wrote:

AD> It occurred to me in the dead of the night that instead of:

AD> ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD 'newlabel'

AD> it might be better to have:

AD> ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD LABEL 'newlabel'

AD> That way if we later wanted to support some other sort of ADD operation
AD> on types we would be able to more easily. LABEL is already a keyword, so
AD> it should be pretty minimally invasive to make this change, and if we
AD> want to do it now is the time.

AD> Thoughts?

AD> cheers

AD> andrew

I'm with you.

BTW, I wrote post with poll about this.

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With best wishes,
Pavel mailto:pavel(at)gf(dot)microolap(dot)com

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