Re: BIT/BIT VARYING names (was Re: [HACKERS] Beta for 4:30AST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-03-01T20:26:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> There's another issue, which is that the routines that implement > operations for a particular type are generally named after the type's > internal name. I trust you are not going to propose that we find a way > to put spaces into C function names ;-). It seems to me that the > confusion created by having support code named differently from the > type's internal name is just as bad as having the internal name > different from the external name. > > This being the case, it seems like "bit_varying" might be a reasonable > compromise for the internal name, and that should work already... Having only one type with an underscore seems like a mistake. We already don't have internal names matching. I would just make it bit, bitvar, or maybe varbit. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026