Bikeshedding on enum vocabulary
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
Wow, this must be the most difficult smallest thing I have ever seen
discussed in pg-hackers. It doesn't seem like there are enough votes
in any particular direction. Now *this* is proper bikeshedding.Should we ask more openly in another thread, with a different, more
catchy subject?
Well, as someone coming to enums from a C/C++ background, element is
the last thing I would have thought. _My_ scale of intuitiveness is:
1) label (my normal vocabulary when talking about enums)
2) identifier [constant] (when talking spec-type jargon)
Never have I thought of the enum label as either a "value", or an
"element". That's not to say anyone else hasn't thought of them
differently. Obvously ;-)
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On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
Well, as someone coming to enums from a C/C++ background, element is
the last thing I would have thought. _My_ scale of intuitiveness is:1) label (my normal vocabulary when talking about enums)
2) identifier [constant] (when talking spec-type jargon)Never have I thought of the enum label as either a "value", or an
"element". That's not to say anyone else hasn't thought of them
differently. Obvously ;-)
I suggest "color".
ALTER ENUM hair_colors ADD COLOR 'blue';
Or anything at all.
ALTER ENUM planets ADD PLANET 'x';
Best,
David, pedaling away after tagging the bikeshed