It seems that my last mail on this did not get through to the list ;(
Please consider renaming the new builtin function
split(text,text,int)
to something else, perhaps
split_part(text,text,int)
(like date_part)
The reason for this request is that 3 most popular scripting languages
(perl, python, php) all have also a function with similar signature, but
returning an array instead of single element and the (optional) third
argument is limit (maximum number of splits to perform)
I think that it would be good to have similar function in (some future
release of) postgres, but if we now let in a function with same name and
arguments but returning a single string instead an array of them, then
we will need to invent a new and not so easy to recognise name for the
"real" split function.
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Hannu