Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: >> Can we come up with a more descriptive term?
> We bikeshed on that topic a while back and nobody suggested anything > that got more than 1 or 2 votes. But I'm still happy to rename it if > we can come up with something better, because I'm not in love with it > either. > Having now spent far too much time in bed with that patch, I'm feeling > like the concept that we are really looking for there is what some > languages call "pure" - that is, there must be no side effects, > whether by throwing exceptions or otherwise. Hmm, "pure" doesn't sound bad to me. Nice and short. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers