"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> 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.
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