Yesterday, Hubert ‘depesz’ Lubaczewski wrote a post about new functionality in PostgreSQL 9.1.
In a few words we will have the ability to add new values to the existing ENUM type defined earlier. Thanks God!
However, Andrew Dunstan proposed to use another syntax for it:
ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD LABEL ‘newlabel’
The discussion was hot. Brendan Jurd wanted previous syntax, Tom Lane proposed substitution VALUE for LABEL, Pavel Stehule made a suggestion for ELEMENT etc.
What term sounds good for you, friend?
October 28, 2010 at 6:13 pm
As mentioned by Brendan Jurd, “thingy” best captures the essence of “it”! Although in Standard C, I think those thingies are called enumeration tags.
October 28, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Someone proposed MEMBER.