Re: WIP: extensible enums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: WIP: extensible enums
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In response to Re: WIP: extensible enums  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Oct 23, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I still prefer the idea of not changing rows once they're
> inserted, though

Me too.  But I really dislike the idea of having a failure mode where we can't insert for no reason that the user can
understand. So I'm trying to think of a better option. 

Why would you need to lock out type comparisons?  Locking out concurrent DDL seems sufficient.

...Robert

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