On Friday 17 December 2004 06:12 pm, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> An alternative to Andreas' suggestion would be to create a simple lookup
> table and join them.  This is good if the real life example can get
> larger and/or the list can change and you don't want to modify code
> every time it does.

yes, but in this case the list wont change, and i'm trying to port mysql to 
pgsql without disturbing as far as possible the mysql queries. basically 
replacing some 'set' and 'enum' datatypes - one table has six of thes, and 
adding six tables is not on

kg

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