Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Sorry to be commenting late, but don't most people want to add to the
> > end or beginning of the enum list, rather than in the middle, and can't
> > we support that already?
>
> We could allow adding a value, but we couldn't guarantee where it would
> appear in the type's sort ordering. Depending on the current OID
> counter it would usually show up either at the end or the beginning.
> I think the general feeling is that this is too implementation-dependent
> to be acceptable.
Well, we don't need the enum value to map into the entire oid range.
Can't we just add one to the top-most value and see if there is a
conflict?
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