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Enum in migration not working (Postgres)

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Describe the bug A migration using enum type in postgres database isn’t working.

To Reproduce

Create a migration with table.enum('gender', ['male', 'female'])
Run migration

Expected behavior Constraint check is have to create normally.

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What database are you using? Postgres

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)

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josephmancusocommented, Feb 2, 2021

Lastly we can also do this. This requires to smallest change:

create table users12(
    genders VARCHAR(255) CHECK (genders IN ('male', 'female'))
);

This just requires adding {column} IN to the query

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josephmancusocommented, Feb 3, 2021

Fixed in #363

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