On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:38 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > This should be okay, right? Well, almost. The problem here is if you > want to have a variable where you set more than one option, you have to > use bit-and of the enum values ... and the resulting value is no longer > part of the enum. A compiler would be understandably upset if you try > to pass that value in a variable of the enum datatype.
Yes. I dislike this style for precisely this reason. I may, however, be in the minority. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com