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Re: WIP: extensible enums

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

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From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-10-20T22:54:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> Efficiency has  always been one of the major reasons for using enums, so
> it's important that we make them extensible without badly affecting
> performance.

on that note is it worthwhile backpatching recent versions to allocate
enums with even numbered oids? That way people binary upgrading can
get the benefit of the optimization they should qualify for...

merlin