Re: getpid() function

I can rename backend_pid if people want. I just made it consistent
with the other functions in that docs area. Comments?

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Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:44:23AM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:01:52PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > Is there some common convention of names?
> >
> > No, there isn't (for example, pg_stat_backend_id() versus
>
> I know -- for this I asked. IMHO for large project like PostgreSQL
> it's important. It's not good if there is possible speculate about
> name of new function. It must be unmistakable -- for this is needful
> make some convension. If somebody add new function and it's released,
> it's in the PostgreSQL almost forever.
>
> > current_schema() -- or pg_get_viewdef() versus obj_description() ).
> > Now that we have table functions, we might be using more built-in
> > functions to provide information to the user -- so there will be
> > an increasing need for some kind of naming convention for built-in
> > functions. However, establishing a naming convention without
> > breaking backwards compatibility might be tricky.
>
> Yes, but we can try be clean for new stuff.
>
> Karel
>
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