On 2019-07-13 08:08, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> About doc: I'd consider "generation" instead of "generating" as a
> secondary index term.
We do use the "-ing" form for other secondary index terms. It's useful
because the concatenation of primary and secondary term should usually
make a phrase of some sort. The alternative would be "generation of",
but that doesn't seem clearly better.
>> (There is also precedent for redirecting the extension function to the
>> internal one by changing the SQL-level function definition using CREATE
>> OR REPLACE FUNCTION ... LANGUAGE INTERNAL. But that seems more
>> complicated and would require a new extension version. It could maybe
>> be included if the extension version is changed for other reasons.)
>
> What about avoiding a redirection with something like:
>
> Datum (* const pg_random_uuid)(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) = gen_random_uuid;
That seems very confusing.
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