Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1sTN6Y-00FYtJ-Gd for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:55:06 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1sTN6X-00AqyT-6L for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:55:05 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1sTN6W-00Aqxo-SH for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:55:04 +0000 Received: from 008.lax.mailroute.net ([199.89.1.11]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1sTN6U-002Ff8-DZ for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:55:04 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 008.lax.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4WN4xJ2x5Pz6Cp2tZ; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:55:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=acm.org; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type:in-reply-to :mime-version:user-agent:date:date:message-id:references:subject :subject:from:from:received:received; s=mr01; t=1721055297; x= 1723647298; bh=im/iDzmknjvyVi9wRZtCt7yIn7z7hGRMEcAgTy1u1CQ=; b=f rX8vxVrIHEMCa+JoNjqVVhQiRLL8znQ1jfcxAVkT4n3KMTNjhQ+r1UFkowdH6E/5 Q+ndmbecSbaX54f4xX6YAYFxvMi0BmWKZqVzVAj45dlPHjO+Tumd9Zvepeno2/Ww dl9LclKOSu1+e+ZzYJQeLePT/+hpNPv1Ho3/xqa6pk5h0AAGDhXR8/nIv4+GwYB8 I1K93sccEIzxU85W4Si6J990a7VUMtlINHgrPiMRQ1SJzeARGWNMItdNbp8C/BUM C6Nf2c+lM+ii9GSXQPQ567iB1OVsVtAUUXg05Nsoc5DEKu4XcK801ETgMQYkZ+U9 6OnXQfTjKWVrZbIZavPLw== X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from 008.lax.mailroute.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (008.lax [127.0.0.1]) (mroute_mailscanner, port 10029) with LMTP id J-fLax3icaZT; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [73.103.120.3] (c-73-103-120-3.hsd1.in.comcast.net [73.103.120.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jcflack@acm.org) by 008.lax.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4WN4xD4JQlz6Cnv3g; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:54:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Chapman Flack Subject: Re: add function argument names to regex* functions. To: jian he , Tom Lane References: <0eb3a5d7-75d8-4da5-9c88-a93deccdaa03@gmail.com> <75129a34-14da-48aa-9906-42062fe78664@gmail.com> <1763682.1712090733@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1816377.1715800208@sss.pgh.pa.us> <6695362E.4010202@acm.org> Cc: Robert Haas , Peter Eisentraut , Dian Fay , Jim Nasby , PostgreSQL Hackers Message-ID: <6695383F.2010808@acm.org> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:54:55 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6695362E.4010202@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On 07/15/24 10:46, Chapman Flack wrote: > Ah, I may have mistaken which functions the patch meant to apply to. > ... > Any choice to use similar argument names in the regexp_* functions would > be a matter of consistency with the analogous ISO functions, not anything > mandated. Or, looking back, I might have realized these were the non-ISO regexp_* functions, but seen there was bikeshedding happening over the best name to use for the occurrence argument, and merely suggested ISO's choice OCCURRENCE for the analogous ISO functions, as a possible bikeshed accelerator. Regards, -Chap