Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> I'm late to the party on this, but I wonder if it wouldn't be better to
> use a type-neutral parameter name here, like "source", which could cover
> all these cases, instead of "string", "bytes", etc.
+1 for that idea. As Jian notes, we'd need to make the docs match,
but I think that this would be an improvement across the board.
Parameter names like "string" don't convey much information.
regards, tom lane