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Re: add function argument names to regex* functions.

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Dian Fay <di@nmfay.com>, Jim Nasby <jim.nasby@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-15T20:48:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 4:25 PM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe just "match" instead of "replace_match".

Well, this is just turning into a bikeshedding exercise at this point.
We can generate names for this parameter all day long, but a bunch of
names none of which gets more than one vote is not really helping
anything.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Doc: fix text's description of regexp_replace's arguments.

  2. Add argument names to the regexp_XXX functions.

  3. Add assorted new regexp_xxx SQL functions.