Re: add label to enum syntax - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: add label to enum syntax
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Msg-id 16518.1288026518@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to add label to enum syntax  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: add label to enum syntax
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> It occurred to me in the dead of the night that instead of:
>     ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD 'newlabel'
> it might be better to have:
>     ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD LABEL 'newlabel'
> That way if we later wanted to support some other sort of ADD operation 
> on types we would be able to more easily.

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?
        regards, tom lane


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