Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
ANYENUM? What's the use-case for that?
Well ... *somebody* suggested it here ...
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00457.php
Well, in that usage (ie, for enum I/O functions) it's not actually
necessary that the type system as a whole understand ANYENUM as
"something that any enum type can be cast to", because you're going to
hot-wire the pg_type entries during CREATE ENUM anyway. What I'm
wondering is if there's a use-case for it during ordinary user
operations with enums.
If you look further down in the thread you'll see that I suggested
hiding it, because i didn't think there was much use case for it in user
code, but you didn't seem to think much of that idea.
cheers
andrew
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