Re: plPHP and plRuby - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: plPHP and plRuby
Date
Msg-id 20060724174537.GK5223@surnet.cl
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In response to Re: plPHP and plRuby  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: plPHP and plRuby  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >Am Montag, 24. Juli 2006 18:49 schrieb Alvaro Herrera:
> >>Side question -- is it plRuby or PL/Ruby?  We should be consistent.  I
> >>just noticed the top-level README file has all the wrong names -- what
> >>is "pl/c" for starters?  Or plPgsql?  We've _never_ used those names.
> >
> >I'm beginning to think that this is part of some obscure plot by Joshua 
> >Drake to confuse people. 
> 
> I sincerely hope you are kidding.

I understand that he is.

> >I advise all committers not to take any documentation 
> >patches from him without careful scrutiny.
> 
> Gah... aren't you just all sour grapes. The README was reviewed by 
> several people, in fact it went through two versions to the patches list.

I saw those fly by and my gut feeling was "whoever commits this is
_certainly_ going to fix it".  I'm not sure why I didn't comment on it.

> Sorry that nobody caught it (including myself), but good lord it isn't 
> that big of a deal.

Consistency is important.  It may not be _THAT_ big a deal, but we
should be at least a little careful.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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