On 10/26/2010 09:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
But ... having said all that, I have to agree that ELEMENT seems preferable to LABEL if we ignore micro-considerations of parser efficiency --- I still think LABEL is a pretty poor choice of word here. Personally I'd still take VALUE as being my first choice though.
Speculation about what the SQL standards might contain at some stage if they ever supported enums seems to be drawing a bit of a long bow, so I'm not terribly convinced by that line of reasoning.
The reason I chose LABEL was that it's consistent with what we have used elsewhere, both in the docs and the catalog. But I'm not strongly wedded to it. If it's a choice between ELEMENT and VALUE, I too prefer VALUE at it seems likelier to convey the sense of what we're doing to a naive user.
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