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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: David E. Wheeler <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Florents Tselai <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PATCH: jsonpath string methods: lower, upper, initcap, l/r/btrim, replace, split_part
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 14:31:27 -0400
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"David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]> writes:
> On May 21, 2025, at 14:06, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If we want to go this route, maybe we should do
>> something like:
>> ...
>> 5. Still get complaints.

> Complainers gonna complain.

Yeah.  I do not see the point of that amount of effort.

> Any idea how widespread the use of the function is? It was added in 17, and I’ve met few who have really dug into the jonpath stuff yet, let alone needed the time zone conversion functionality.

That's a good point.  We should also remember that if somebody really
really doesn't want to fix their app, they can trivially create a
wrapper function with the old name.

Having said that, what's wrong with inventing some improved function
names and never removing the old ones?

			regards, tom lane

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