| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal: Change of pg_trigger.tg_enabled and adding |
| Date: | 2007-01-26 22:04:49 |
| Message-ID: | 29580.1169849089@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> On 1/26/2007 4:39 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> Also, if enums will be in 8.3, perhaps they can be used instead of
>> "char"?
> I don't like this one. It makes it impossible to provide patches,
> enabling this replication system on older Postgres releases. And you
> know that your customers will want them.
Also, at the level of C code enums will not be terribly easy to work
with. We use the char-as-poor-mans-enum trick in all the other system
catalogs, so I feel no desire to do it differently here.
regards, tom lane
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