| From: | Zachary Beane <xach(at)xach(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 'enum' equivalent? |
| Date: | 2001-01-22 04:01:04 |
| Message-ID: | 20010121230104.T11005@xach.com |
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:33:02PM -0500, Steve Leibel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm converting a mysql database to postgres. Is there an equivalent
> for the enum data type?
If you want to make a column limited to few certain values, you can
define it something like:
mycolumn varchar(3) check (mycolumn in ('foo', 'bar', 'baz'))
That would be somewhat similar in effec to mysql's
mycolumn enum('foo', 'bar', 'baz')
Zach
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