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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
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Subject: Re: ENUM like data type
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 17:20:19 +0200,
  MRB <nomail@example.com> wrote:
> 
> Here is where I get uncertain as to if this is possible. My idea is to 
> create a pseudo type that triggers the creation of it's lookup tables 
> the same way the SERIAL type triggers creation of a sequence and returns 
> an int with the right default value.

You might want to look at using a domain to do this.