Re: extensible enum types

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-18T23:59:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
>> And how would it be per data-type?
>>     
>
> Well, there'd be two kinds of enums, just as you were saying before.
> I'm not sure how we'd expose that to users exactly, or whether there
> could be provisions for switching a type's behavior after creation.
>
> 			
>   

I'd be a whole lot happier if we didn't have to do that. I've been 
trying to wrack my brain for some clever way to avoid it (so far without 
success).

cheers

andrew