Re: add label to enum syntax
Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>
From: Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-10-28T10:49:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hello, Andrew. You wrote: AD> It occurred to me in the dead of the night that instead of: AD> ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD 'newlabel' AD> it might be better to have: AD> ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD LABEL 'newlabel' AD> That way if we later wanted to support some other sort of ADD operation AD> on types we would be able to more easily. LABEL is already a keyword, so AD> it should be pretty minimally invasive to make this change, and if we AD> want to do it now is the time. AD> Thoughts? AD> cheers AD> andrew I'm with you. BTW, I wrote post with poll about this. -- With best wishes, Pavel mailto:pavel@gf.microolap.com