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From Pavel Golub
Subject Re: add label to enum syntax
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Msg-id 1938573977.20101028135024@gf.microolap.com
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In response to add label to enum syntax  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: add label to enum syntax  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Hello, Andrew.

You wrote:


AD> It occurred to me in the dead of the night that instead of:

AD>     ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD 'newlabel'


AD> it might be better to have:

AD>     ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD LABEL 'newlabel'


AD> That way if we later wanted to support some other sort of ADD operation
AD> on types we would be able to more easily. LABEL is already a keyword, so
AD> it should be pretty minimally invasive to make this change, and if we 
AD> want to do it now is the time.

AD> Thoughts?

AD> cheers

AD> andrew


Forgot link to poll:
http://pgolub.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/poll-alter-type-enumtype-add-what-newlabel/

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