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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2008-12-19 01:34:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2008-12-19 01:34:19 +0000 |
| commit | e32014d85de478e7baa4af9a113832ea1cd360ef (patch) | |
| tree | 44ba249e26fb1d85548e6df679e7b71ef53ba784 | |
| parent | 382af3a95406c1ee9a4a5647eb7586d1432196e3 (diff) | |
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Add a couple of cross-references to the docs about enum types, per a
recent gripe that the info is hard to find.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index c9669b49512..6a61c0c5bf5 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.234 2008/11/11 02:42:31 tgl Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.235 2008/12/19 01:34:19 tgl Exp $ --> <chapter id="datatype"> <title id="datatype-title">Data Types</title> @@ -2742,6 +2742,10 @@ SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE a; <secondary>enumerated (enum)</secondary> </indexterm> + <indexterm zone="datatype-enum"> + <primary>enumerated types</primary> + </indexterm> + <para> Enumerated (enum) types are data types that are comprised of a static, predefined set of values with a @@ -2886,6 +2890,13 @@ SELECT person.name, holidays.num_weeks FROM person, holidays Spaces in the labels are significant, too. </para> + <para> + The translations from internal enum values to textual labels are + kept in the system catalog + <link linkend="catalog-pg-enum"><structname>pg_enum</structname></link>. + Querying this catalog directly can be useful. + </para> + </sect2> </sect1> |