Re: patch: to_string, to_array functions

Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>

From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-21T04:39:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
2010/7/20 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:
> here is a new version - new these functions are not a strict and
> function to_string is marked as stable.

We have array_to_string(anyarray, text) and string_to_array(text, text),
and you'll introduce to_string(anyarray, text, text) and
to_array(text, text, text).
Do we think it is good idea to have different names for them?  IMHO, we'd
better  use 3 arguments version of array_to_string() instead of the
new to_string() ?

If to_string and to_array is in the SQL standard, we can accept the
name changes.
But if there are no standard, I'd like to keep the existing function names.

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Itagaki Takahiro