Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?
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Msg-id 20080423181007.GA4512@merkur.hilbert.loc
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In response to Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?  (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@wars-nicht.de>)
Responses Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:38:48PM +0200, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:

> Yes. You should/can use ENUM for something like 'gender':
> male, female, unknown. You don't need to add other values ever (yeah, i
> skipped some special cases).
I was gonna say ! :-)

Add

 hermaphrodite
 transgender with female phenotype
 transgender with male phenotype

and you should be set from current medical science's point
of view ;-)

Karsten
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