Обсуждение: Bikeshedding on enum vocabulary

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:

> Wow, this must be the most difficult smallest thing I have ever seen
> discussed in pg-hackers.  It doesn't seem like there are enough votes
> in any particular direction.  Now *this* is proper bikeshedding.
>
> Should we ask more openly in another thread, with a different, more
> catchy subject?

Well, as someone coming to enums from a C/C++ background, element is
the last thing I would have thought.  _My_ scale of intuitiveness is:

1) label (my normal vocabulary when talking about enums)
2) identifier [constant] (when talking spec-type jargon)

Never have I thought of the enum label as either a "value", or an
"element".  That's not to say anyone else hasn't thought of them
differently.  Obvously ;-)

</bikeshed>


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On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> Well, as someone coming to enums from a C/C++ background, element is
> the last thing I would have thought.  _My_ scale of intuitiveness is:
> 
> 1) label (my normal vocabulary when talking about enums)
> 2) identifier [constant] (when talking spec-type jargon)
> 
> Never have I thought of the enum label as either a "value", or an
> "element".  That's not to say anyone else hasn't thought of them
> differently.  Obvously ;-)

I suggest "color".

ALTER ENUM hair_colors ADD COLOR 'blue';

Or anything at all.
 ALTER ENUM planets ADD PLANET 'x';

Best,

David, pedaling away after tagging the bikeshed