Re: Migrating a MySQL schema with an enum

On Mié 20 Mar 2002 23:31, you wrote:
> > Keith Gray writes:
> > > Migrating a MySQL schema with an enum to PostgreSQL,
> > > is there an equivalent type or do I have to declare
> > > another table for "enum" values.
> >
> > Generally, you'd use a text field with a check constraint.  For example:
> >
> > CREATE TABLE car (
> >  ...
> >  color text check (color in ('blue', 'green', 'yellow')),
> >  ...
> > );
>
> Nope - cos you need 'blue,green' as a value, etc. as well.

That's not how enum() works.

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Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera,
si podés usar PostgreSQL?
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