Migration to add enum column not working

[KyleAMathews]

Which is odd as this would work if I created the enum when creating the table.

CREATE TYPE application_status AS ENUM ('applied', 'rejected');
ALTER TABLE read_jobs ADD COLUMN why application_status;

I'm assuming this is a bug?

[linear[bot]]

VAX-1754 Migration to add enum column not working

[samwillis]

Hey 👋

Adding enum columns to an already electrified table hasn't been implemented yet. There is a little complexity we need to solve with the ordering of operations that doesn't apply when electrifying an existing table with them. It's on the to do list.

[msfstef]

This is a current limitation with ENUM types, see warning at the bottom of the types docs.

Since this is a known and documented limitation that might take a bit of time to resolve I will convert this issue into a discussion.