Re: Please rename split(text,text,int) to splitpart

What do people think if this change?

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Hannu Krosing wrote:
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> It seems that my last mail on this did not get through to the list ;(
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> Please consider renaming the new builtin function
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> split(text,text,int)
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> to something else, perhaps
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> split_part(text,text,int)
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> (like date_part)
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> The reason for this request is that 3 most popular scripting languages
> (perl, python, php) all have also a function with similar signature, but
> returning an array instead of single element and the (optional) third
> argument is limit (maximum number of splits to perform)
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> I think that it would be good to have similar function in (some future
> release of) postgres, but if we now let in a function with same name and
> arguments but returning a single string instead an array of them, then
> we will need to invent a new and not so easy to recognise name for the
> "real" split function.
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> Hannu
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