| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: extensible enum types |
| Date: | 2010-06-20 03:50:50 |
| Message-ID: | 1277005850.5130.9.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:42 +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> >> Thoughts?
> It's very cool to be able to write queries like SELECT * FROM payments
> WHERE payment_type = 'cash', rather than having to recall time and
> again what the PK of cash is within your lookup table.
Ahem. That is what a natural key is for :)
Joshua D. Drake
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> Regards,
> Peter Geoghegan
>
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