Re: WIP: extensible enums

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-23T18:16:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Swami Josh predicts that if we don't add AFTER now, we'll be adding it
> in 2 years when enough people complain about it.

If it's not there, no one will ever miss it.  You might as well argue
that there should be a way of creating a foreign key reference by
ALTER'ing the referenced table instead of the referencing table.
Sure, if the SQL committee was into symmetry, they might have provided
such a thing.  But they didn't and no one misses it.

			regards, tom lane