Re: contrib function naming, and upgrade issues

On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 01:57 +0000, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> Note that I'm talking here about the names of the C functions, not
> the SQL names.
>
> The existing hstore has some very dubious choices of function names
> (for non-static functions) in the C code; functions like each(),
> delete(), fetchval(), defined(), tconvert(), etc. which all look to me
> like prime candidates for name collisions and consequent hilarity.
>
> The patch I'm working on could include fixes for this; but there's an
> obvious impact on anyone upgrading from an earlier version... is it
> worth it?

Perhaps you can have two sets of functions, yet just one .so? One with
the old naming for compatibility, and a set of dehilarified function
names for future use. Two .sql files, giving the user choice.

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