Re: Enums patch v2

Where are we on this?

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Tom Dunstan wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Here is an updated version of the enums patch. It has been brought up to
> date and applies against current CVS HEAD. The original email is at [1],
> and describes the implementation.
>
> This version contains sgml documentation, and contains the missing
> bounds checks and error codes noted in the last email.
>
> As mentioned before, the only part that I'm not super keen on is the
> hack required to pass the type oid in to the text-to-enum cast function,
> since normally those take type mods but not type oids. I wasn't sure how
> else to get a cast working though, short of allowing another type of
> cast function which accepts type oids as well. That seemed overkill for
> just one case, though, and was getting a bit beyond the realms of what I
> wanted to get done with this patch.
>
> Anyway, it's reasonably feature complete and should be appropriately
> documented now, so feedback gratefully accepted.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
> [1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-09/msg00000.php

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