[Engine-devel] short research on postgresql enums

[Eli Mesika]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 10:43:43 PM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] short research on postgresql enums
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I looked into Mike's database patch (
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#change,500 ) today and read Yaniv's comment
> on it. I have seen another patches related to enums and how they are
> stored in the database. I made a quick test to compare between
> varchar and enum and the results are here:
> http://dummywarhead.blogspot.com/2011/12/postgresql-enums-vs-varchar.html
> 
> IMO enums could be a good solution, but changing enums could be a
> pain under postgres 9.1. So what if we could use varchar now and
> migrate to enum once postgres 9.1 replaces the older installations
> :)
> 
+1

> Laszlo
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