synonym tags ?

[damien clochard]

As I was searching for a specific extension I noticed that some tags
have the same meaning but yet give different results such as:

http://pgxn.org/tag/fdw/
http://pgxn.org/tag/external%20data/
and http://pgxn.org/tag/foreign%20data%20wrapper/

http://pgxn.org/tag/data%20types/
and http://pgxn.org/tag/datatype/

http://pgxn.org/tag/analysis/
and http://pgxn.org/tag/analytics/

http://pgxn.org/tag/aggregate/
and http://pgxn.org/tag/aggregate%20function/


Letting extension authors give their own tag is cool but the drawback is
that teh multiple tag variaitions create more confusion.

In meantime, the number of tags variation is low and it won't grow
dramatically. So why define a hard-coded list of tag synonym like :

fdw: external data, data wrapper, foreign data wrapper
datatype: data types
aggregate: aggregate function
analysis: analytics

The multiple variations remains, but the end user will have a better
experience when searching extension with the tags.

[David E. Wheeler]

On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:27 PM, damien clochard <dam...@dalibo.info> wrote:

> In meantime, the number of tags variation is low and it won't grow
> dramatically. So why define a hard-coded list of tag synonym like :
>
> fdw: external data, data wrapper, foreign data wrapper
> datatype: data types
> aggregate: aggregate function
> analysis: analytics
>
> The multiple variations remains, but the end user will have a better
> experience when searching extension with the tags.

Hrm, not a bad idea. Would need an admin interface added to manager, though, and the code to add tags in the back end code. Quite a bit of work, actually. Maybe add it as an issue here so that it can be tracked?

https://github.com/pgxn/pgxn-manager/issues/

Thanks,

David