Re: A list of open points in the documentation

On 13/02/2010 12:36, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> re ENUMs:
> 
> Perhaps the default could to map them to a FrozenSet somehow.
> 
> Upon importing extensions it might be be useful to be able
> to activate OrderedSet support for them.
> 
> OTOH, the actual column value is probably nothing but a
> string going back and forth between PostgreSQL and Python.
> Isn't the ENUM more like a glorified DOMAIN inside the
> database ?  So, perhaps there isn't really much to worry
> about and I am making much ado about nothing ?
> 
> It strikes me as useful to support something like
> 
>    psycopg2.extensions.get_domain_range(table.enum_typed_column)
> 
> which would return an OrderedSet :-)
> 
> This would come in handy in making applications more data driven.

I mostly agree, but I'll think about enums after next release (and
probably also after the much needed TZ rewrite).

federico

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Federico Di Gregorio                                       fog-NGVKUo/i/[email protected]
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