Re: JSON Function Bike Shedding

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> David,
>>> However, I am not so keen on the function names. They all start with
>>> json_! This mostly feels redundant to me, since the types of the
>>> parameters are part of the function signature.
>
>> I have no opinion about starting the function names with json_ or not.
>
> +1 for removing that where possible.  We generally have avoided such
> names at SQL level.  (The C-level function names need such prefixes to
> be unique, but the SQL names don't.)
>
> In the cases where one or more arguments are anyelement, however, we may
> need to be more specific to avoid ambiguity problems in future.  I agree
> with Josh's objections to record(), row() etc.  to_record() and
> to_recordset() might be OK.

!

merlin