On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> I'm not sure why you need either "from". It just seems like a noise
>> word. Maybe we could use pg_execute_query_file() and
>> pg_execute_query_string(), which would be fairly clear and nicely
>> symmetrical.
>
> +1, but I think "query" is also a noise word here.
> Why not just "pg_execute_file" and "pg_execute_string"?
I'd pick pg_execute_from_file() and just plain pg_execute(), myself.
pg_execute_file() could be read to mean you are going to execute the
file itself (i.e. it's a program).
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