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Re: extensible enum types

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Joseph Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-18T22:36:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Excerpts from Joseph Adams's message of vie jun 18 18:17:50 -0400 2010:

> Couldn't enum_eq just use get_fn_expr_argtype to determine the type of
> enum input rather than rely on it being stored in the value (either
> implicitly via OID or explicitly as a word half)?
> 
> Also, I can't seem to find the original debates from when enums were
> implemented.  Does anyone have a link to that thread in the archives?

Probably around here
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-12/msg00099.php

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