| From: | Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kirk Wolak <wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Eric Radman <ericshane(at)eradman(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct |
| Date: | 2023-08-21 19:15:28 |
| Message-ID: | 20230821191528.GA443047@nathanxps13 |
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:31:37AM +0100, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> Hmm, I think just including the doc text update, without the examples
> of positive and negative inputs, might not be sufficient to make the
> meaning clear to everyone.
I added some examples for negative inputs.
> Something else that bothers me slightly is the function naming --
> "hexadecimal" gets abbreviated to "hex", "octal" gets abbreviated to
> "oct", but "binary" is left as-is. I think it ought to be "to_bin()"
> on consistency grounds, even though I understand the words "to bin"
> could be interpreted differently. (Looking elsewhere for precedents,
> Python has bin(), oct() and hex() functions.)
I renamed it to to_bin().
> Also, I think the convention is to always list functions
> alphabetically, so to_oct() should really come after to_hex().
I reordered the functions in the docs.
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Nathan Bossart
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