Re: add label to enum syntax

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I can see the point of that, but I don't find LABEL to be a particularly
>>> great name for the elements of an enum type, and so I'm not in favor of
>>> institutionalizing that name in the syntax.  How about ADD VALUE?
>
>> So the docs have called them "labels" for quite some time.
>
> There are some places in the docs that use that term, but there are
> others that don't.  In any case, using the term in the SQL syntax
> casts it in stone, not silly putty ...

Personally, I prefer LABEL.  But I could live with VALUE.

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