At 11:22 AM 3/20/2001 -0500, Ravi Raman wrote:
>You can use an ENUM column type assuming the numerical range is less than
>65535 numbers.
>
>http://www.mysql.com/doc/E/N/ENUM.html
One problem I've seen with enums is that I end up with a blank ('') field
if I try to insert a row with a value in the enum column that doesn't fit.
Is there a way to get the insert to fail on "bad input" instead?
For example:
mysql> CREATE TABLE Stats (
-> Status enum('good','bad') NOT NULL
-> );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> INSERT INTO Stats VALUES ('neither');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
(Can I get this insert to FAIL instead? because...)
mysql> select * FROM Stats;
+--------+
| Status |
+--------+
| |
+--------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
(this isn't always a good thing).
-bill
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