| From: | Chapman Flack <jcflack(at)acm(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, 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: | 2024-05-15 19:22:59 |
| Message-ID: | 66450B93.2070904@acm.org |
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On 05/15/24 15:07, Robert Haas wrote:
> is. I believe that if I were reading the documentation, count would be
> clearer to me than N, N would probably still be clear enough, and
> replace_at wouldn't be clear at all. I'd expect replace_at to be a
> character position or something, not an occurrence count.
You've said the magic word. In the analogous (but XQuery-based)
ISO standard regex functions, the argument that does that is identified
with the keyword OCCURRENCE.
What would be wrong with that, for consistency's sake?
Regards,
-Chap
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