From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> |
Cc: | Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Jones <jim(dot)jones(at)uni-muenster(dot)de>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Patch: Add parse_type Function |
Date: | 2024-02-19 22:13:51 |
Message-ID: | 65706.1708380831@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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I wrote:
> I'm less thrilled about that, mainly because I can't think of
> a good name for it ("format_type_string" is certainly not that).
After some time ruminating, a couple of possibilities occurred to
me:
reformat_type(text)
canonical_type_name(text)
> Is the use-case for this functionality really strong enough that
> we need to provide it as a single function rather than something
> assembled out of spare parts?
I'm still unconvinced about that, though.
regards, tom lane
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