Re: ENUM like data type

El Mié 29 Jun 2005 09:40, KÖPFERL Robert escribió:
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> |
> |I personally think that the ENUM data type is for databases
> |that are not well
> |designed. So, if you see the need for ENUM, that means you
> |need to re-think
> |your data design.
> |
>
> I disagree. In several relations (views of the world) one needs to have a
> hand full of well defined values while
> integers or bools are not appropriate and strings are too free form.
> For example male female or true and false. Whilst the second has a well
> known type, other things like a telephone number type don't have such type.
> So a new one should be created instead of (varchar/ xy between 4 and 8). One
> might argue that new 1:n relations with integrity shall be established but
> this is in my eyes overkill for a constant number of values.
> Also think of schema export without data. These values are part of the
> schema data but not the schema itself which in this sense is wrong

Please, most of this can be done with CHECK(...).

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