Re: latest hstore patch

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, "\"David E(dot) Wheeler\"" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: latest hstore patch
Date: 2009-10-02 15:06:19
Message-ID: 200910021506.n92F6JH14345@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> > 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?

Off topic, but in normal English usage I thought 'vector' was a 1-D
array, and an array could be any number of dimensions.

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