Re: getpid() function

Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>

From: nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway)

To: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2002-08-01T14:44:23Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:01:52PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>  Is there some common convention of names?

No, there isn't (for example, pg_stat_backend_id() versus
current_schema() -- or pg_get_viewdef() versus obj_description() ).
Now that we have table functions, we might be using more built-in
functions to provide information to the user -- so there will be
an increasing need for some kind of naming convention for built-in
functions. However, establishing a naming convention without
breaking backwards compatibility might be tricky.

Cheers,

Neil

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Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
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