Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 04:12:01PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Well, with enumkit you can't, because the values are hardwired in the
>>.so file. With a builtin facility you would be able to, because the
>>values would live in the catalog. However, hacking the catalog is not
>>something I would encourage - what you are suggesting basically breaks
>>the abstraction. But sure, it would be possible. I would not provide an
>>SQL level facility to do it, though. My approved way to do it would be
>>like the example I gave earlier.
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>Why not allow renaming though? It seems like a logical feature to have,
>and an easy one to add. What am I missing?
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That it is not changing a name, but a value. It's roughly the equivalent
of inserting a new digit between 3 and 4. Your "feature" breaks the
abstraction I am trying to implement.
cheers
andrew