Re: Naming of new tsvector functions

Stas Kelvich <s(dot)kelvich(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> writes:
>> On 04 May 2016, at 20:15, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Also, I'd supposed that we'd rename to tsvector_something, since
>> the same patch also introduced tsvector_to_array() and
>> array_to_tsvector(). What's the motivation for using ts_ as the
>> prefix?

> There is already several functions named ts_* (ts_rank, ts_headline, ts_rewrite)
> and two named starting from tsvector_* (tsvector_update_trigger, tsvector_update_trigger_column).

> Personally Id prefer ts_ over tsvector_ since it is shorter, and still keeps semantics.

Yeah, I see we're already a bit inconsistent here. The problem with using
a ts_ prefix, to my mind, is that it offers no option for distinguishing
tsvector from tsquery, should you need to do that. Maybe this isn't a
problem for functions that have tsvector as input.

regards, tom lane