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Re: extensible enum types

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-20T00:15:36Z
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On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:50 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Thoughts?

enum types exist as an optimisation-by-avoidance of referential
integrity.

We're a relational database, so IMHO we should spend time performance
tuning RI. 

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