Re: Enum proposal / design

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >> If there was a mechanism to obtain
> >> field widths from the catalog there would be no need to store the
> >> field width in each tuple. This would be useful for other types as
> >> well (UUID and ENUM, for example).
> 
> > I don't think there is concensus on adding that.
> 
> Well, it's pie-in-the-sky at the moment because we have no credible
> design for doing it.  Whether any given proposal would get accepted
> would depend on what its downsides were.
> 
> Do we (or should we) have a TODO section for "blue sky research
> ideas"?  I'd not object to putting an item like this in such a
> section.  But for most of the TODO items we have a reasonably clear
> idea of what we're talking about, so this doesn't seem to belong
> in with the rest.

Blue sky ideas just don't seem natural on the TODO list.  Some people
wanted to use a wiki, and maybe it would be good for that.

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