Dear Postgres developers, I have been working with Oracle for few years now in my work, and I tried some free databases for a project that I'm developing for my own use, I have tried H2,FireBird and postgres, and found the last to be the most stable and feature-rich, so thanks for all the good work.
I have read the 8.3 documentation, and with reference to Enum Support Functions found on http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/functions-enum.html, i think it is useful to add 2 functions, enum_after(anyenum) and enum_before(anyenum), so having : CREATE TYPE rainbow AS ENUM ('red', 'orange', 'yellow', 'green', 'blue', 'purple'); enum_after('orange'::rainbow) will return 'yellow' enum_after('purple'::rainbow) will return an error enum_before('purple'::rainbow) will return 'blue' a good to have function would be enum_size(anyenum) which would return 6 in the previous example that will be helpful in dealing with enums Best regards Hashim Kubba Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane with All new Yahoo! Mail: http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca
