[sqlalchemy] Re: postgres and/or generic enum support in sqlalchemy

2009-05-27 Thread Dimmich Damian
Agreed - it makes more sense to have a generic enum type which may fall back to software should the db not actually support it. Having said that, in terms of using (selecting/updating) an enum field the syntax should be quite similar across implementations. While I'm not familiar with databases

[sqlalchemy] Re: postgres and/or generic enum support in sqlalchemy

2009-05-27 Thread Dimmich Damian
, Michael Bayer mike...@zzzcomputing.comwrote: On May 27, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Dimmich Damian wrote: Would it, based on the above assumption, not be possible to have a generic enum type that figures out what to do based on what type of database we are connected to without needing to specify MSEnum