Categorical data type that sorts by dictionary order?

[nmichaud]

Would be useful for sorting a list of days or months without needing a separate column

[deepankarsharma]

So something like an enum?

[nmichaud]

yeah, important part is that a pivot on that type has a sort order that might not be alphabetical, and all categories should be in the pivot even if no underlying rows have that value

[deepankarsharma]

Serves like good semantics for enum.

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:05 PM Naveen Michaud-Agrawal < notifications@github.com> wrote:

yeah, important part is that a pivot on that type has a sort order that might not be alphabetical, and all categories should be in the pivot even if no underlying rows have that value

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[deepankarsharma]

On second thought - maybe we can make it configurable on the pivot on whether to include all categories or just the ones that are present?

[nmichaud]

Yeah agreed, since each column has it's own vocab. And the way to get a defined order can be done by insertion order into the vocab, and then using that for sorting?

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018, 2:22 PM Deepankar Sharma <notifications@github.com wrote:

On second thought - maybe we can make it configurable on the pivot on whether to include all categories or just the ones that are present?

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[deepankarsharma]

Vocabs might go away soon.

[nmichaud]

Are you still going to do interning?

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Vocabs might go away soon.

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[deepankarsharma]

Have not decided on details yet, but the only thing decided is that the current scheme wont stay.