tortoise / tortoise/tortoise-orm
Support real enums
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- Python
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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.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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