Re: add label to enum syntax

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-10-25T17:08:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> It occurred to me in the dead of the night that instead of:
>     ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD 'newlabel'
> it might be better to have:
>     ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD LABEL 'newlabel'
> That way if we later wanted to support some other sort of ADD operation 
> on types we would be able to more easily.

I can see the point of that, but I don't find LABEL to be a particularly
great name for the elements of an enum type, and so I'm not in favor of
institutionalizing that name in the syntax.  How about ADD VALUE?

			regards, tom lane