enumerated type..

CREATE DOMAIN is the answer:

CREATE DOMAIN mytype AS INT2 CHECK(VALUE>=1 AND VALUE<=6);

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:43, raptor@tvskat.net wrote:

I don`t know, if there is a special feature in postgresql for this.
The standard SQL-way is to create a lookup-table and define a foreign-key to it.

create table states( state_id int primary key not null
, state_text varchar(30) not null
, constraint uk_states_state_text unique( state_text ) );

create table states( state_id int primary key not null , state_text varchar(30) not null );
alter table states add constraint uk_states_state_text unique( state_text );

create table your_table (
...
state_id int not null
, constraint fk_yt_state_id foreign key (state_id) references states
);

raptor@tvskat.net schrieb:

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 16:46:08 +0200,
Michael Kleiser <mkl@webde-ag.de> wrote:

I don`t know, if there is a special feature in postgresql for this.
The standard SQL-way is to create a lookup-table and define a foreign-key
to it.

You could also use a domain which constrains one of its columns to a
few values. I don't think this would be appropiate for a large list,
like the list of use states. But you might do this when there are fewer
values and you don't expect the list to change.