Re: add function argument names to regex* functions.

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dian Fay <di(at)nmfay(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <jim(dot)nasby(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: add function argument names to regex* functions.
Date: 2024-07-25 13:42:29
Message-ID: 317a1e29-8b6c-4dc0-825b-b760567f4607@eisentraut.org
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On 15.07.24 16:52, Chapman Flack wrote:
> On 07/15/24 10:46, Chapman Flack wrote:
>> Ah, I may have mistaken which functions the patch meant to apply to.
>> ...
>> Any choice to use similar argument names in the regexp_* functions would
>> be a matter of consistency with the analogous ISO functions, not anything
>> mandated.
>
> Or, looking back, I might have realized these were the non-ISO regexp_*
> functions, but seen there was bikeshedding happening over the best name
> to use for the occurrence argument, and merely suggested ISO's choice
> OCCURRENCE for the analogous ISO functions, as a possible bikeshed
> accelerator.

These functions were copied from Oracle, so one argument was to use the
names from Oracle as-is.

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