I'd prefer a string, because we need to check the table structure, with enum 
there could be differences. Also messier over time.

Antony T Curtis <atcur...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>On 11 Feb, 2013, at 6:45 pm, Arjen Lentz wrote:
>
><snip>
>> 
>>> Arjen> We'll probably also change the latch column from an integer to
>>> a string. We can keep it backward compatible at least from the app
>>> perspective, allowing for "1" and the other values in the form of
>>> strings.
>> 
>
>If the latch column is defined as an ENUM(), they would have logical numeric 
>identities in addition to the string label.
>
>(It would essentially be a very quick change to enable this in the code... 
>little to no change is required in the storage engine other than to permit the 
>declaration of the latch column as an enum,
>
>
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