Re: getpid() function

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:44:23AM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:01:52PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >  Is there some common convention of names?
> 
> No, there isn't (for example, pg_stat_backend_id() versus
I know -- for this I asked. IMHO for large project like PostgreSQLit's important. It's not good if there is possible
speculateaboutname of new function. It must be unmistakable -- for this is needfulmake some convension. If somebody add
newfunction and it's released,it's in the PostgreSQL almost forever.
 

> current_schema() -- or pg_get_viewdef() versus obj_description() ).
> Now that we have table functions, we might be using more built-in
> functions to provide information to the user -- so there will be
> an increasing need for some kind of naming convention for built-in
> functions. However, establishing a naming convention without
> breaking backwards compatibility might be tricky.Yes, but we can try be clean for new stuff.   Karel

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