Re: Alter or rename enum value - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Alter or rename enum value
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Msg-id 56F58876.6020508@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Alter or rename enum value  (Matthias Kurz <m.kurz@irregular.at>)
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Re: Alter or rename enum value
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On 03/25/2016 04:13 AM, Matthias Kurz wrote:
>
> Hopefully at the commitfest at least the transaction limitation 
> will/could be tackled - that would help us a lot already.
>
>

I don't believe anyone knows how to do that safely. Enums pose special 
problems here exactly because unlike all other types the set of valid 
values is mutable.

cheers

andre




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