Re: WIP: extensible enums

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > >> Well, you can rename an item today if you don't mind doing a direct
> > >> UPDATE on pg_enum. I think that's probably sufficient if the demand
> > >> only amounts to one or two requests a year. I'd say leave it off the
> > >> TODO list till we see if there's more demand than that.
> > 
> > > I'd say put it on and mark it with an [E].  We could use some more
> > > [E]asy items for that list.
> > 
> > We don't need to add marginally-useful features just because they're
> > easy.  If it doesn't have a real use-case, the incremental maintenance
> > cost of more code is a good reason to reject it.
> 
> Perhaps we should remove the ability to rename tables and databases too.
> It would certainly lighten the code path.

OK, got it.  Added incomplete TODO item:
Allow renaming and deleting enumerated values from an existingenumerated data type

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