Re: add label to enum syntax

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-10-26T14:43:04Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

0001-Change-syntax-to-add-a-new-enum-value-to-ALTER-TYPE-.patch (application/octet-stream) patch 0001

Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of mar oct 26 10:54:59 -0300 2010:

> On 10/26/2010 03:02 AM, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> > In mathematics (and I think also computer science), the term
> > conventionally used the refer to the things in an enumeration is
> > "element", so how about ADD ELEMENT?
> 
> Unlike the other suggestions, ELEMENT is not currently a keyword. That 
> doesn't rule it out entirely, but it's a factor worth consideration.

It can be added as an unreserved keyword, as in the attached patch.

I also like ELEMENT better than the other suggestions, so I'm gonna
commit this unless there are objections.

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