Re: ENUM like data type - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: ENUM like data type
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Msg-id 200506292320.32726.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: ENUM like data type  (Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>)
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Rod Taylor wrote:
> Indeed. A CHECK constraint on a DOMAIN is an ENUM plus some.

Not really.  A domain doesn't create a new type.  If you base your enum 
domains on the text type, as would usually be the case, then nothing 
stops you from using, say, text concatenation operators and the like.  
I suppose in practice this won't matter too much, but it can't be 
called a clean design.  What you'd really need is a way to create a 
distinct type.  SQL has a feature for that, but PostgreSQL hasn't 
implemented it.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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