Tom Lane wrote:
> > Why not enums? ;-)
>
> Well, macros is how we do it elsewhere for "char" system columns.
> I'm not sure we could rely on the behavior if we declared
> pg_type.typtype as an enum type ... and if we don't, there's not
> much point.

I was thinking C enums:

enum typtype_type {
        TYPTYPE_BASE = 'b',
        TYPTYPE_COMPOSITE = 'c',
        TYPTYPE_DOMAIN = 'd',
        TYPTYPE_ENUM = 'e',
        TYPTYPE_PSEUDO = 'p'
};

I'm not sure if this is better.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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