Re: latest hstore patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: latest hstore patch
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Msg-id 200910021506.n92F6JH14345@momjian.us
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In response to Re: latest hstore patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> > I intentionally avoided hstore_to_array because it would be unclear
> > which one it meant (the 1-d or 2-d result).
> 
> hstore_to_list seems like a pretty horrible name though for something
> that produces an array.  I also note that "array" means "1-D array"
> according to no less an authority than the SQL standard ;-).  I think
> we could live with hstore_to_array and hstore_to_matrix.  Thoughts,
> other ideas?

Off topic, but in normal English usage I thought 'vector' was a 1-D
array, and an array could be any number of dimensions.

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