Re: Enumerated data type - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Cook
Subject Re: Enumerated data type
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.10.10005030900080.18873-100000@frog.adl.ardec.com.au
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In response to Re: Enumerated data type  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Enumerated data type
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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Anand Raman writes:
>
> > Is there anything equivalent to the enumerated data types in
> > postgresql..
>
> You might find that strings with check constraints will do the job, e.g.
>
> create table my_tbl (
>  ...
>  color text check color in ('blue', 'green', 'white'),
>  ...
> );
>

For anything much more than this, I'd just create a table with all the
possible values in it, each with a unique identifier, and then use the
identifier in my_tbl. Then you can control the possible values more
easily.

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