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

From Christophe Pettus
Subject Re: Alter or rename enum value
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Msg-id 8B7E7881-0E0A-4E98-9766-1D7CB092FA4B@thebuild.com
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In response to Re: Alter or rename enum value  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mar 27, 2016, at 7:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I do not know whether this would be a meaningful improvement for
> common use-cases, though.

It would certainly be a step forward over the current situation.  It would mean that a specific imaginable use-case
(insertinga new enum value, then populating a dimension table for it) would have to be done as two migrations rather
thanone, but that is much more doable in most tools than having a migration run without a transaction at all. 

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