| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David E(dot) Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: add label to enum syntax |
| Date: | 2010-10-26 14:43:04 |
| Message-ID: | 1288103539-sup-6991@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of mar oct 26 10:54:59 -0300 2010:
> On 10/26/2010 03:02 AM, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> > In mathematics (and I think also computer science), the term
> > conventionally used the refer to the things in an enumeration is
> > "element", so how about ADD ELEMENT?
>
> Unlike the other suggestions, ELEMENT is not currently a keyword. That
> doesn't rule it out entirely, but it's a factor worth consideration.
It can be added as an unreserved keyword, as in the attached patch.
I also like ELEMENT better than the other suggestions, so I'm gonna
commit this unless there are objections.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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| 0001-Change-syntax-to-add-a-new-enum-value-to-ALTER-TYPE-.patch | application/octet-stream | 14.3 KB |
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