| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: generic builtin functions |
| Date: | 2005-11-10 22:30:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20051110223005.GC27361@fetter.org |
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 05:26:45PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> David Fetter wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:08:29PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Tom Lane wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm not convinced that using bigint-equivalent space for an enum is
> >>>a mortal sin...
> >>>
> >>at least venial ...
> >
> >Heh.
> >
> >Would ORDER BY somehow know about enums' given ordering?
>
> ORDER BY (and all inequality operators) will reflect the defined
> enumeration ordering, as happens today with enumkit-defined types.
>
> That is a fundamental requirement that I won't deviate from.
Great :) :)
I hadn't understood how the enumkit stuff worked.
Cheers,
D
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