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

Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>

From: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Данил Столповских <danil.stolpovskikh@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru, d.frolov@postgrespro.ru
Date: 2023-10-03T15:49:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 10/3/23 17:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org> writes:
>> On 10/2/23 20:07, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Pushed with a bit more work on the text.
> 
> I left out the regression test, as it seems like it'd add test cycles
> to little purpose.  It won't do anything to improve the odds that
> someone finds this text.

Thanks!
-- 
Vik Fearing




Commits

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