| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch |
| Date: | 2009-01-16 18:09:18 |
| Message-ID: | 8994.1232129358@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Changing the scope of the search on the basis of whether or not a
> pattern is present strikes me as a terrible idea. It's confusing and
> unlikely to make anyone happy.
Huh? The pattern itself "changes the scope of the search", so I don't
see how this is a conceptual violation.
Not that I'd personally be unhappy with dropping that part of the
proposal, but this doesn't seem like a good argument against it.
regards, tom lane
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