On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com>wrote:
> Agreed. > > However I am also against what seems to be the flow. Normally, you > don't write overloaded plpgsql functions such as "equal". Case in > point, the equality functions in core have funny names like "int4eq" and > so on. Instead, at least in my experience, the overloaded functions > people seem to have in their databases are like do_stuff_to_foobars() > and you have one version for foos and another one for bars. > > If you're doing lots of equality functions, surely it would make more > sense to package them up as an extension anyway along with all the other > thingies you need for the type you're supposedly writing. So it's a > completely different market than what we're aiming at here. True, very true, I didn't think about that, you are right, I fully agree. My vote is therefore on the "put all overloaded functions in the same file" variant.
