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Re: s/LABEL/VALUE/ for ENUMs

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-23T00:46:34Z
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 11/22/2010 06:57 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

> Oh my boots and buttons. I think we're splitting some very fine hairs 
> here. A few weeks back you were telling us that label wasn't a very good 
> word and shouldn't be sanctified in the SQL.

It isn't a very good word for the abstract value, IMO, but the text
representation is a different concept.

			regards, tom lane