and is there an easy way to progrmatically get the name of the enum from 
the model field (given I declared it as as above)?

On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 5:16:44 PM UTC-4, Mike Bayer wrote:
>
> you don't gain much since it only works on Postgresql anyway.    Also, 
> the syntax you suggested wouldn't work, because Postgresql needs to 
> know the name of the enumeration. 
>
> This is part of why all the "enum" issues for alembic are just open. 
>   The way PG does it vs. MySQL are immensely different, and then none 
> of the other databases have an ENUM type.    Your request for an 
> "op.alter_column()" directive is basically asking for those issues to 
> be done.   I'm on a long term search for code contributors who can 
> work on that stuff, ENUM is going to be very hard to work front to 
> back in all cases. 
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 2:49 PM Alex Rothberg <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > 
> > is there no way to get this alter statement without writing raw sql? 
> > e.g. something like: op.alter_column("my_table", "my_column", 
> existing_type=ENUM(...), type_=ENUM()) ? 
> > 
> > On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 2:36:52 PM UTC-4, Mike Bayer wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Postgresql ENUMs are entirely different from any other database so it 
> >> matters a lot.  For PG, you'd want to be doing op.execute("ALTER TYPE 
> >> myenum ..."), full syntax is at 
> >> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-altertype.html 
> >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:45 PM Alex Rothberg <[email protected]> 
> wrote: 
> >> > 
> >> > Assuming that I am using the PEP-435 enum feature in SQLA, e.g.: 
> >> > class InvitationReason(str, enum.Enum): 
> >> >     ORIGINAL_ADMIN = "ORIGINAL_ADMIN" 
> >> >     FIRM_USER = "FIRM_USER" 
> >> >     ... 
> >> > 
> >> > reason = db.Column(db.Enum(InvitationReason), nullable=False) 
> >> > 
> >> > and I want to add / change the values in the enum. I know that 
> alembic won't auto generate the migration. Given that, what is the simplest 
> way to specify the migration by hand? I am using postgres, if that matters. 
> >> > 
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