| From: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: count_nulls(VARIADIC "any") |
| Date: | 2016-02-08 21:25:37 |
| Message-ID: | CAEepm=0uhc+oJSZ7g_WdvcCfDxv4MzLKM2cK=N8E1amLowzD4Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Would num_values be a better name than num_nonnulls?
>
> If "value" is a term that excludes null values, it's news to me.
Ah, right, I was thinking of null as the absence of a value. But in
fact it is a special value that indicates the absence of a "data
value". And num_data_values doesn't sound great.
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Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com
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