On 12/01/2012 12:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Does this actually get you over the problem identified in the comment?:
>> * We disallow this in transaction blocks, because we can't cope
>> * with enum OID values getting into indexes and then having their
>> * defining pg_enum entries go away.
> Why wouldn't it? If the enum type was created in the current xact, then
> surely any table columns of the type, or a fortiori indexes on the type,
> were also created in the current xact and they'd all go away on abort.
>
>
OK, I understand. So this seems like a Good Thing to do.
cheers
andrew