Re: add label to enum syntax
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-10-25T18:51:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes: >> On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> I can see the point of that, but I don't find LABEL to be a particularly >>> great name for the elements of an enum type, and so I'm not in favor of >>> institutionalizing that name in the syntax. How about ADD VALUE? > >> So the docs have called them "labels" for quite some time. > > There are some places in the docs that use that term, but there are > others that don't. In any case, using the term in the SQL syntax > casts it in stone, not silly putty ... Personally, I prefer LABEL. But I could live with VALUE. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company