On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 7:06 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 201U9, Mike Bayer wrote: > > > Postgresql has ENUM within CREATE TYPE: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/datatype-enum.html > > Mike, > > Thank you. I hadn't looked at the postgres docs for it. > > > I'm not sure if this is a "DOMAIN" behind the scenes or what. > > Postgres supports the SQL DOMAIN. Whether enum is equivalent is yet to be > determined. :-) > > > This SQL syntax is directly supported with the PG ENUM type: > > https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/dialects/postgresql.html?highlight=enum#enum-types > > which is also available from the generic enum type: > > https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/type_basics.html#sqlalchemy.types.Enum, > > as long as native_enum=True on that object. > > > > Enum is pretty popular so it should work well. > > Thanks for the URLs. I glanced at the SA constraint doc's section on enum > but have not yet carefully read it. > > I'm using the domain because the same column check constraint applies to > two tables in this application so it makes sense to write it once and have > it applied everywhere there's a state_code column.
PG's ENUM does work that way, below the same type is shared: from sqlalchemy import Column from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy import Integer from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base from sqlalchemy.orm import Session from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql Base = declarative_base() State = postgresql.ENUM("AK", "AL", "CO", "NY", name="states") class A(Base): __tablename__ = 'a' id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) data = Column(State) class B(Base): __tablename__ = 'b' id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) data = Column(State) e = create_engine("postgresql://scott:tiger@localhost/test", echo=True) Base.metadata.create_all(e) s = Session(e) s.add_all([A(data="CO"), B(data="NY")]) s.commit() SQL output includes: CREATE TYPE states AS ENUM ('AK', 'AL', 'CO', 'NY') CREATE TABLE a ( id SERIAL NOT NULL, data states, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) CREATE TABLE b ( id SERIAL NOT NULL, data states, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) > > Best regards, > > Rich > > -- > SQLAlchemy - > The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper > > http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ > > To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and > Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full > description. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.