Tom Lane wrote:
> > Why not enums? ;-)
>
> Well, macros is how we do it elsewhere for "char" system columns.
> I'm not sure we could rely on the behavior if we declared
> pg_type.typtype as an enum type ... and if we don't, there's not
> much point.
I was thinking C enums:
enum typtype_type {TYPTYPE_BASE = 'b',TYPTYPE_COMPOSITE = 'c',TYPTYPE_DOMAIN = 'd',TYPTYPE_ENUM = 'e',TYPTYPE_PSEUDO =
'p'
};
I'm not sure if this is better.
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