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Re: Allow deleting enumerated values from an existing enumerated data type

Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>

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From: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Данил Столповских <danil.stolpovskikh@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru, d.frolov@postgrespro.ru
Date: 2023-10-03T00:21:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 10/2/23 20:07, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org> writes:
> 
>> No one except you has said anything about this patch.  I think it would
>> be good to commit it, wordsmithing aside.
> 
> FWIW I'm +1 on this patch,

Thanks.

> and with Tom on dropping the "yet".  To me it
> makes it sound like we intend to implement it soon (fsvo).
I am not fundamentally opposed to it, nor to any other wordsmithing the 
committer (probably Tom) wants to do.  The main point of the patch is to 
list at least some of the problems that need to be solved in a correct 
implementation.
-- 
Vik Fearing

Commits

  1. Add some notes about why "ALTER TYPE enum DROP VALUE" is hard.