Re: WIP: extensible enums

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> On 11/12/2010 01:40 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> FYI, I marked the TODO item for adding enums as completed.  The TODO
>>> item used to also mention renaming or removing enums, but I have seen
>>> few requests for that so I removed that suggestion.  We can always
>>> re-add it if there is demand.
>
>> Renaming an item would not be terribly hard. Removing one is that nasty
>> case. There are all sorts of places the old value could be referred to:
>> table data, view definitions, check constraints, functions etc.
>
> 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.

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