> Hy there,
> I would like to know if there is a possibility to get all allowed values
> of an enum field out of the database.
>
> I know there are methods to get the field type and those give me back
> something like "enum('value1', 'value2', 'value3')", and I can parse my
> possible values out of this with regexp's in the Programming language of
> my Choice, but I am interested to know if there isn't a more "beautiful"
> possibility where Mysql gives me back the result direct.
SELECT DISTINCT enum_col FROM tablename WHERE enum_col<256;
/ Carsten
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