Re: s/LABEL/VALUE/ for ENUMs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: s/LABEL/VALUE/ for ENUMs
Date: 2010-11-22 23:57:15
Message-ID: 20576.1290470235@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> Patch attached.

Most of those changes seem like they make it less readable, not more so.
In particular I don't find it an improvement to replace "textual label"
with "textual value". I think of "value" as meaning some abstract
notion of a particular enum member, which is not identical to the
concrete text string that represents it. If you consider them the same
thing then renaming an enum value would be a meaningless concept.

Maybe instead of "textual label", we should say "name"? But that
doesn't seem like quite le mot juste either. "label" is actually a
pretty good word for the text representation of an enum value.

regards, tom lane

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