Re: What is the good equivalent for ENUM ?

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 09:50, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > >>>>> "SD" == Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> writes:
> >
> > SD> On 3 Sep 2003 at 14:30, Bruno BAGUETTE wrote:
> > >> The problem is that this MySQL database uses ENUM, do you see what can I
> > >> do to migrate ENUM into PostgreSQL ?
> >
> > SD> varchar with check constraints. Add constraits to allow only
> > SD> certain values of varchar string.
> >
> > I used to do this. It turns out to be horribly inflexible when you
> > need to alter the enum values since the constraints cannot easily be
> > changed.
>
> It'll be better when domains have alterable constraints. Your
> way is the traditional (and best, IMO) way, though.

In 7.4 we have:

Add DOMAIN CHECK constraints (Rod)
Add ALTER DOMAIN .. SET / DROP NOT NULL, SET / DROP DEFAULT, ADD / DROP
CONSTRAINT (Rod)

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