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From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Are globally defined constants possible at all ?
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In response to Re: Are globally defined constants possible at all ?  (Gregory Seidman <gss+pg@cs.brown.edu>)
Responses Re: Are globally defined constants possible at all ?  (Gregory Seidman <gss+pg@cs.brown.edu>)
Re: Are globally defined constants possible at all ?  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
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On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:36:35PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:

> I am in the exact same position. I have a number of things which are
> essentially enumerations. Since PostgreSQL does not support an enumeration
> type (MySQL does, but then it doesn't have a proper boolean type), I have a

Why don't you use a CHECK contraint?  That's the standard way to do
it.

A

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