RE: New SQL Datatype RECURRINGCHAR

The only problem with 'enum' is that all of the possible values must be
specified at CREATE time.  A logical extension to this would be to allow for
'dynamic extensions' to the list.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:49 PM
To: Rod Taylor
Cc: dbennett@jade.bensoft.com; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New SQL Datatype RECURRINGCHAR


"Rod Taylor" <rbt@barchord.com> writes:
> This is rather like MySQL's enum.

Yes.  If we were going to do anything like this, I'd vote for stealing
the "enum" API, lock stock and barrel --- might as well be compatible.
        regards, tom lane