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Re: WIP: extensible enums

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-12T19:20:22Z
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Well, you can rename an item today if you don't mind doing a direct
>> UPDATE on pg_enum. I think that's probably sufficient if the demand
>> only amounts to one or two requests a year. I'd say leave it off the
>> TODO list till we see if there's more demand than that.

> I'd say put it on and mark it with an [E].  We could use some more
> [E]asy items for that list.

We don't need to add marginally-useful features just because they're
easy.  If it doesn't have a real use-case, the incremental maintenance
cost of more code is a good reason to reject it.

			regards, tom lane