"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: > >> No. We have a function overloading system, we should use it. >> > In general I agree with you. > > What's bothering me here though is that in the two argument forms, if the > first > argument is text the second argument is the destination encoding, but if the > first argument is a bytea the second argument is the source encoding. That > strikes me as likely to be quite confusing, and we might alleviate that with > something like: > > text convert_from(bytea, name) > bytea convert_to(text, name) > > But if I'm the only one bothered by it I won't worry.
I tend to agree with you. We should only use overloading when the function is essentially the same just tweaked as appropriate for the datatype, not when the meaning is different. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
