| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: s/LABEL/VALUE/ for ENUMs |
| Date: | 2010-11-23 00:48:17 |
| Message-ID: | 7B9B6993-2875-4779-820E-406CAF44DFCF@kineticode.com |
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On Nov 22, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Oh my boots and buttons. I think we're splitting some very fine hairs
>> here. A few weeks back you were telling us that label wasn't a very good
>> word and shouldn't be sanctified in the SQL.
>
> It isn't a very good word for the abstract value, IMO, but the text
> representation is a different concept.
But that's the thing we've been talking about all along! It's now
ALTER ENUM ADD VALUE 'FOO';
But that sets the text value, the label, not the abstract value.
Boots and buttons indeed.
David
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