Re: generic builtin functions

David Fetter wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:08:29PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>I'm not convinced that using bigint-equivalent space for an enum is
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>>at least venial ...
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>Heh.
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>Would ORDER BY somehow know about enums' given ordering?
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ORDER BY (and all inequality operators) will reflect the defined 
enumeration ordering, as happens today with enumkit-defined types.

That is a fundamental requirement that I won't deviate from.

cheers

andrew