Re: s/LABEL/VALUE/ for ENUMs
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-22T23:57:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes: > Patch attached. Most of those changes seem like they make it less readable, not more so. In particular I don't find it an improvement to replace "textual label" with "textual value". I think of "value" as meaning some abstract notion of a particular enum member, which is not identical to the concrete text string that represents it. If you consider them the same thing then renaming an enum value would be a meaningless concept. Maybe instead of "textual label", we should say "name"? But that doesn't seem like quite le mot juste either. "label" is actually a pretty good word for the text representation of an enum value. regards, tom lane