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Re: WIP: extensible enums

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-12T18:50:00Z
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On 11/12/2010 01:40 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> FYI, I marked the TODO item for adding enums as completed.  The TODO
> item used to also mention renaming or removing enums, but I have seen
> few requests for that so I removed that suggestion.  We can always
> re-add it if there is demand.


Renaming an item would not be terribly hard. Removing one is that nasty 
case. There are all sorts of places the old value could be referred to: 
table data, view definitions, check constraints, functions etc.

cheers

andrew