On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> The reason I chose LABEL was that it's consistent with what we have used elsewhere, both in the docs and the catalog.
ButI'm not strongly wedded to it. If it's a choice between ELEMENT and VALUE, I too prefer VALUE at it seems likelier
toconvey the sense of what we're doing to a naive user.
FWIW, MySQL seems to call them values:
> An ENUM is a string object with a value chosen from a list of permitted values that are enumerated explicitly in the
columnspecification at table creation time.
-- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/enum.html
Best,
David
