po 20. 1. 2020 v 1:38 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:
Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> writes: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 12:10 AM Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote: >> Now, I think so name "anymultirange" is not good. Maybe better name is just "multirange"
> Are you sure? This function exists to be a cast to an anymultirange, > and I thought the convention was to name cast functions after their > destination type.
True for casts involving concrete types, mainly because we'd like the identity "value::typename == typename(value)" to hold without too much worry about whether the latter is a plain function call or a special case. Not sure whether it makes as much sense for polymorphics, since casting to a polymorphic type is pretty silly: we do seem to allow you to do that, but it's a no-op.
I'm a little troubled by the notion that what you're talking about here is not a no-op (if it were, you wouldn't need a function). That seems like there's something fundamentally not quite right either with the design or with how you're thinking about it.
I thinking about completeness of operations
I can to write
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fx(anyarray, anyelement)
RETURNS anyarray AS $$
SELECT $1 || ARRAY[$2]
$$ LANGUAGE sql;
I need to some functionality for moving a value to different category (it is more generic than casting to specific type (that can hold category)
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fx(anymultirange, anyrange)
RETURNS anyrage AS $$
SELECT $1 + multirange($1)
$$ LANGUAGE sql;
is just a analogy.
Regards
Pavel
As a comparison point, we sometimes describe subscripting as being a polymorphic operation like
subscript(anyarray, integer) returns anyelement
It would be completely unhelpful to call that anyelement(). I feel like you might be making a similar mistake here.
Alternatively, consider this: a cast from some concrete multirange type to anymultirange is a no-op, while any other sort of cast probably ought to be casting to some particular concrete multirange type. That would line up with the existing operations for plain ranges.
