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From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: s/LABEL/VALUE/ for ENUMs
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Msg-id BDDBDEA9-DAE3-4429-8013-4D1E741F164B@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: s/LABEL/VALUE/ for ENUMs  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Nov 22, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:

> ... "original patch".  Sorry.  Let's not fiddle with the names.

To be clear, as things stand now, the new command is:
   ALTER TYPE name ADD VALUE new_enum_value [ { BEFORE | AFTER } existing_enum_value ]

So while the term in the SQL statement is "VALUE," it's called a "label" in the documentation. I think that's
confusing.Does anyone else? 

Best

David

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