On 01/09/14 06:00, Tom Lane wrote:
Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
Suggest discretize() as a much more informative name. The other names
will be overlooked by anybody that doesn't already know what to look
for.
I did not like that idea to begin with, but it's growing more attractive.
In particular, I think it would be unique enough that we could safely
mark the polymorphic function as variadic (a move that would cause
ambiguity issues for pretty nearly any user-defined function of the
same name).
OTOH, I'm not as convinced as you that this name would mean anything
to "anybody that doesn't already know what to look for". It still
seems like rather arcane terminology.
regards, tom lane
If I was new to PostgreSQL, I'd probably read this as disc*(), a
function to do something with discs.
I have done finite maths and statistics at university, plus I have been
vaguely following this thread - but, the meaning of discretize() is not
immediately apparent to me (if I reread a previous email or 2 in this
thread, then I'm sure it would then be obvious!). I might guess that it
is to make something discrete, but why would I want to do that? So if I
came across this function in a year or 2, I'd probably go right past it.
I have been programming for over 40 years, and I still find choosing
appropriate names sometimes very difficult, so I know it is not easy to
come up with meaningful names - especially ones that mean something
relevant to other people!
Cheers,
Gavin
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