Re: latest hstore patch

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

David> * More name stuff: Why `hstore_to_list` rather than
David> `hstore_to_array`? And I'm not sure about `hstore_to_matrix`
David> for the 2-dimensional array. I guess that's better than
David> `hstore_to_multidimensional_array` would be. ;-)

>> I intentionally avoided hstore_to_array because it would be
>> unclear which one it meant (the 1-d or 2-d result).

Tom> hstore_to_list seems like a pretty horrible name though for
Tom> something that produces an array. I also note that "array"
Tom> means "1-D array" according to no less an authority than the SQL
Tom> standard ;-). I think we could live with hstore_to_array and
Tom> hstore_to_matrix. Thoughts, other ideas?

I don't feel particularly strongly about the name (I've also
intentionally held off on updating the pgfoundry version of the code
until this is settled so no-one else should care either).

My own expectation is that the operator should normally be used in
preference (though obviously people's tastes will vary in this
respect).

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)