Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Please see my reply to Robert. My proposal (in form of a patch) is
> while operating on tuple (0,2) in table "foo": updating tuple
> Would this work for you?
It's pretty lousy from a readability standpoint, even in English;
I shudder to think what it might come out as after translation.
I think the enum idea you floated is probably worth doing. It's
certainly no more complex than passing a string, no?
regards, tom lane