"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:09, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> What about enums?
>>
>> Er, what about them? I don't see that they enter into this at all.
> Well, from a user's point of view, they're pretty much just strings�
But they're a very restricted set of strings; I can't see that there's
any general-purpose use for allowing them as the source or destination
of I/O conversions.
regards, tom lane