> Am 21 Dec 2001 15:57:13 +0100 schrieb Carsten H. Pedersen:
> >
> > > I would like to know if there is a possibility to get all allowed
> values
> > > of an enum field out of the database.
> > >
> > > I know there are methods to get the field type and those give me back
> > > something like "enum('value1', 'value2', 'value3')", and I
> can parse my
> > > possible values out of this with regexp's in the Programming
> language of
> > > my Choice, but I am interested to know if there isn't a more
> "beautiful"
> > > possibility where Mysql gives me back the result direct.
> >
> > SELECT DISTINCT enum_col FROM tablename WHERE enum_col<256;
>
> thanks for the quick reply, but this is then dependent on the fact that
> there is already at least one entry for each possible value as defined
> in the enum array of the field type definition.
<cut>
You're right. Scratch that.
> BTW: why enum_col<256?
Because I wasn't thinking straight. I was thinking in terms
of enumerating over the values and extracting them.
/ Carsten
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