On 2020-02-05 10:40:59 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > I'm pretty unimpressed with the enum proposal - I think it's pretty > nasty for an extension author to have to make up a value that's not in > the enum. One, how are they supposed to know that they should do that? > Two, how are they supposed to know that the code doesn't actually > depend on that enum value for anything important? And three, how do > they know that the compiler isn't going to hose them by assuming that > isn't a can't-happen scenario? > > I mean, I'd rather get a patch committed here than not, but I have a > hard time understanding why this is a good way to go.
+1
