Re: For the ametures. (related to "Are we losing momentum?") - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thursday 17 April 2003 13:44, Ben Clewett wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> A brief defence of my posting.  After which I'll retire to my side of
> the fence :)
(snip)

> >>-    Data types like 'ENUM' which appeal to ametures.
> >
> > Isn't that just syntactic sugar for a column with a check for specific
> > values on it?
>
> Yes :)  By point is not that PostgreSQL is lacking, only that the
> ameture finds others more friendly and inviting.
>
> Although this may be a point which is irrelevent?

Probably ;-) because MySQL too lacks a few "user friendly" features
(like boolean datatypes).

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net