From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Annoying "split to array" function inconsistency...best way to fix? |
Date: | 2015-09-27 22:54:35 |
Message-ID: | 12249.1443394475@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Two functions exists that convert "text" to "text[]"
> regexp_string_to_array(text, text [,text]) :
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/functions-string.html
> string_to_array(text, text [, text]) :
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/functions-array.html
> Would it be hateful to make it so that both entries appear on both tables?
> array_to_string(anyarray, text [,text]) could be lumped in with this as
> well.
> string_to_array not being on the string functions page is the more glaring
> omission for me.
I am not excited about the idea of documenting functions twice; that would
almost certainly lead to the redundant entries getting out of sync.
We could possibly decide that string_to_array and array_to_string are
primarily string functions not array functions, and just move them to
the string-functions page.
Another possibility is to just add cross-references to the
string-functions page, like the existing one for string_agg().
But I think I like the first idea better, in view of
regexp_string_to_array already being here.
regards, tom lane
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