On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >> On 11/22/2010 06:57 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Maybe instead of "textual label", we should say "name"? But that >>> doesn't seem like quite le mot juste either. "label" is actually a >>> pretty good word for the text representation of an enum value. > >> Oh my boots and buttons. I think we're splitting some very fine hairs >> here. A few weeks back you were telling us that label wasn't a very good >> word and shouldn't be sanctified in the SQL. > > It isn't a very good word for the abstract value, IMO, but the text > representation is a different concept.
+1 for what Andrew said. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
