From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: jsonpath string methods: lower, upper, initcap, l/r/btrim,
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Comments: In-reply-to "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
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"David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> writes:
> On May 21, 2025, at 14:06, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> 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=E2=80=99ve met few who have really dug into the jonpath stuff yet, l=
et 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