Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> On 1/26/2007 4:39 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> Also, if enums will be in 8.3, perhaps they can be used instead of
>> "char"?
> I don't like this one. It makes it impossible to provide patches,
> enabling this replication system on older Postgres releases. And you
> know that your customers will want them.
Also, at the level of C code enums will not be terribly easy to work
with. We use the char-as-poor-mans-enum trick in all the other system
catalogs, so I feel no desire to do it differently here.
regards, tom lane