On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:59:48PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Joseph Adams > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Indeed, a built-in JSON data type will certainly not need it. > > However, users may want to return enums from procedures written in > > C, and this function provides a way to do it. > > Yeah, but I can't see accepting it on speculation. We'll add it if > and when it's clear that it will be generally useful.
Please pardon me for jumping in here, but one of the things people really love about PostgreSQL is that when you reach for something, it's frequently "just there." As we're improving enums (allowing them to be altered easily after creation, etc.), it seems reasonable to provide ways to return them from all kinds of PLs, including making this easier in C. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [email protected] iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
