| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Florents Tselai <florents(dot)tselai(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PATCH: jsonpath string methods: lower, upper, initcap, l/r/btrim, replace, split_part |
| Date: | 2025-05-21 18:31:27 |
| Message-ID: | 1303509.1747852287@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> writes:
> On May 21, 2025, at 14:06, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> If we want to go this route, maybe we should do
>> something like:
>> ...
>> 5. Still get complaints.
> Complainers gonna complain.
Yeah. I do not see the point of that amount of effort.
> Any idea how widespread the use of the function is? It was added in 17, and I’ve met few who have really dug into the jonpath stuff yet, let alone needed the time zone conversion functionality.
That's a good point. We should also remember that if somebody really
really doesn't want to fix their app, they can trivially create a
wrapper function with the old name.
Having said that, what's wrong with inventing some improved function
names and never removing the old ones?
regards, tom lane
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