Re: latest hstore patch

[ starting to look at this now... ]

Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> writes:
> "David" == "David E Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> David> * More name stuff: Why `hstore_to_list` rather than
> David> `hstore_to_array`? And I'm not sure about `hstore_to_matrix`
> David> for the 2-dimensional array. I guess that's better than
> David> `hstore_to_multidimensional_array` would be. ;-)

> I intentionally avoided hstore_to_array because it would be unclear
> which one it meant (the 1-d or 2-d result).

hstore_to_list seems like a pretty horrible name though for something
that produces an array. I also note that "array" means "1-D array"
according to no less an authority than the SQL standard ;-). I think
we could live with hstore_to_array and hstore_to_matrix. Thoughts,
other ideas?

regards, tom lane