Re: enums

On 10/27/05, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> >That seems counter-intuitive. It's also exposing an implimentation
> >detail (that the enum is stored internally as a number).
>
> No it is not. Not in the slightest. It is honoring the enumeration order
> defined for the type. That is the ONLY correct behaviour, IMNSHO.
> Otherwise, you could just as easily use a domain with a check constraint.
>
> In fact, mysql's behaviour is laughably, even ludicrously, inconsistent:
[snip]
> So for "order by" it honors the enumeration order, but for < it uses the
> lexical ordering. Lovely, eh?

Oh wow. That is broken, I didn't try that case because I figured it
would do it right (i.e. use the enum order).