Re: Naming of new tsvector functions

On 06/05/16 07:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stas Kelvich <s(dot)kelvich(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> writes:
>>> On 04 May 2016, at 20:15, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Also, I'd supposed that we'd rename to tsvector_something, since
>>> the same patch also introduced tsvector_to_array() and
>>> array_to_tsvector(). What's the motivation for using ts_ as the
>>> prefix?
>> There is already several functions named ts_* (ts_rank, ts_headline, ts_rewrite)
>> and two named starting from tsvector_* (tsvector_update_trigger, tsvector_update_trigger_column).
>> Personally I’d prefer ts_ over tsvector_ since it is shorter, and still keeps semantics.
> Yeah, I see we're already a bit inconsistent here. The problem with using
> a ts_ prefix, to my mind, is that it offers no option for distinguishing
> tsvector from tsquery, should you need to do that. Maybe this isn't a
> problem for functions that have tsvector as input.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
use tsv_ and tsq_?

Cheers,
Gavin