Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> Can we come up with a more descriptive term?
> We bikeshed on that topic a while back and nobody suggested anything
> that got more than 1 or 2 votes. But I'm still happy to rename it if
> we can come up with something better, because I'm not in love with it
> either.
> Having now spent far too much time in bed with that patch, I'm feeling
> like the concept that we are really looking for there is what some
> languages call "pure" - that is, there must be no side effects,
> whether by throwing exceptions or otherwise.
Hmm, "pure" doesn't sound bad to me. Nice and short.
regards, tom lane
