Re: leakproof
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-02-20T01:42:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote: >> Can we come up with a more descriptive term? > We bikeshed on that topic a while back and nobody suggested anything > that got more than 1 or 2 votes. But I'm still happy to rename it if > we can come up with something better, because I'm not in love with it > either. > Having now spent far too much time in bed with that patch, I'm feeling > like the concept that we are really looking for there is what some > languages call "pure" - that is, there must be no side effects, > whether by throwing exceptions or otherwise. Hmm, "pure" doesn't sound bad to me. Nice and short. regards, tom lane