Re: Re: Add generate_series(date,date) and generate_series(date,date,integer) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> writes:
> On 3/17/16 11:30 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
>> ​I'd call it "generate_dates(...)" and be done with it.
>> We would then have:
>> generate_series()
>> generate_subscripts()
>> generate_dates()

> To me this completely negates the idea of this "just working" which is
> why it got a +1 from me in the first place.  If I have to remember to
> use a different function name then I'd prefer to just cast on the
> timestamp version of generate_series().

Yeah, this point greatly weakens the desirability of this function IMO.
I've also gone from "don't care" to "-1".
        regards, tom lane