Re: patch: to_string, to_array functions

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:38:17PM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Yeah, I'd like some more votes, too.  Aside from what I suggested
> > (array_join/array_split), I think my favorite is your #5.
>
> -1 for me for any name that is of the form of:
> type_operation();
>
> we don't have bytea_encode, array_unnest(), date_to_char(), etc. the
> non-internal ones that we do have (mostly array funcs), are improperly
> named imo. this is sql, not c. suppose we want to extend string
> serialization to row types?
>
> why not serialize/unserialize?

Because that's not what the function actually does.

FWIW, I'm for (im|ex)plode, as join()/split(), which I'd otherwise
like, would run into too many issues with JOIN.

Cheers,
David.
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