Re: JSON Function Bike Shedding

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: JSON Function Bike Shedding
Date: 2013-02-13 05:37:57
Message-ID: 2325E3E7-9340-44E1-90ED-6C6F8622C733@kineticode.com
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On Feb 12, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>> +1 for removing that where possible. We generally have avoided such
>> names at SQL level. (The C-level function names need such prefixes to
>> be unique, but the SQL names don't.)
>>
>> In the cases where one or more arguments are anyelement, however, we may
>> need to be more specific to avoid ambiguity problems in future. I agree
>> with Josh's objections to record(), row() etc. to_record() and
>> to_recordset() might be OK.

Agreed on all counts. (Wow!)

> !

Not sure this would make a useful operator. Maybe for exists()? :-O

David

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