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Re: add label to enum syntax

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-10-27T14:57:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of mié oct 27 11:18:44 -0300 2010:

> The reason I chose LABEL was that it's consistent with what we have used 
> elsewhere, both in the docs and the catalog. But I'm not strongly wedded 
> to it. If it's a choice between ELEMENT and VALUE, I too prefer VALUE at 
> it seems likelier to convey the sense of what we're doing to a naive user.

Wow, this must be the most difficult smallest thing I have ever seen
discussed in pg-hackers.  It doesn't seem like there are enough votes
in any particular direction.  Now *this* is proper bikeshedding.

Should we ask more openly in another thread, with a different, more
catchy subject?

And I just realized that my patch lacks psql tab completion support.

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