tortoise / tortoise/tortoise-orm

Support real enums

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Description

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL support real type-safe enums, while TortoiseORM only provides some sugar to access a numerical or text field as if it was enum.

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Research direction

The issue does not name any files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating TortoiseORM's enum handling and the MySQL and PostgreSQL schema-generation paths, then define the required behavior for database-native, type-safe enums and verify it with backend-specific tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
mysql, postgresql, python
Domain
databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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