Re: Naming of new tsvector functions

On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 01:58:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I think we'd be better off to rename these to tsvector_delete()
> > and tsvector_filter() while we still can.
>
> ... although I now notice that hstore already exposes a function
> named delete(), so that ship may have sailed already. But I'm more
> troubled by filter() anyhow, since that keyword can appear in
> expressions --- it seems much more likely that that would pose a
> parsing conflict after future SQL extensions.

I suspect that steering that ship would be a good idea starting with
deprecation of the old name in 9.6, etc. hs_filter(), perhaps?

Cheers,
David.
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