I wrote: > I'm less thrilled about that, mainly because I can't think of > a good name for it ("format_type_string" is certainly not that).
After some time ruminating, a couple of possibilities occurred to me: reformat_type(text) canonical_type_name(text) > Is the use-case for this functionality really strong enough that > we need to provide it as a single function rather than something > assembled out of spare parts? I'm still unconvinced about that, though. regards, tom lane