Re: WIP: extensible enums

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-23T19:20:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> I really don't see the value in making a command substantially less
> intuitive in order to avoid a single keyword, unless it affects areas of
> Postgres outside of this particular command.

It's the three variants to do two things that I find unintuitive.

As I mentioned a minute ago, dropping the "abbreviated" syntax and
just having BEFORE and AFTER would be a good way of achieving
symmetry if you find that important.

			regards, tom lane