Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?
Date
Msg-id dcc563d10804240936vfd113ceqb56ad3082dfdb00@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote:
>
>  Otherwise, don't use enums. They should be marked (like char(), IMO) in the
>  manual as, "Warning: you probably don't want to use this datatype.  Go think
>  some more."

Good point.  I think enums are kind like arrays.  Most of the time
they're a bad idea.  sometimes they're an ok idea, and very very
rarely, they are exactly what you need to solve a certain problem.

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Andrew Sullivan
Date:
Subject: Re: How to modify ENUM datatypes?
Next
From: Micah Yoder
Date:
Subject: Re: Which Python library - psycopg2 or pygresql?