"I use ENUM — vindicating the underdog of data types" — FOSDEM 2021
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Boriss Mejias · FOSDEM 2021, PostgreSQL devroom · video.fosdem.org/2021/D.postgresql/postgresql_i_use_enum_vindicating_the_underdog_of_data_types.webm


































































Boriss Mejias spoke in the PostgreSQL devroom at FOSDEM 2021 in defence of a data type most people are told to avoid, comparing enums against text-with-a-check-constraint and a foreign key on insert, read and update. Video2Any stepped through the 29-minute recording and kept 66 clean frames, one per slide change, and set aside 9 more that showed only the speaker's camera during the Q&A at the end. The comparison tables in this deck are the kind of thing worth having as a document rather than a video: you come back to a table, and scrubbing a recording to find one again is the reason this page exists. Every image below is real output, extracted in a browser tab with nothing uploaded.
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