Re: order of statements in create function

В Птн, 09.07.2004, в 20:24, Alvaro Herrera пишет:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 07:16:14PM +0200, Markus Bertheau wrote:
>
> > why does everyone write
> >
> > CREATE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS INTEGER AS '
> > blah blah
> > ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
> >
> > I've never seen for example:
> >
> > CREATE FUNCTION foo()
> > RETURNS INTEGER
> > LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
> > AS '
> > blah blah
> > ';
> >
> > Is there a special reason to this? I have a hard time believing that
> > everyone does it the same way by coincidence.
>
> I think previous versions only allowed the language specification at the
> end. I got used to putting it before the function text though, so if
> you are able to read something written by me you'd see that.
>
> That was your point, wasn't it?

Yes, it was. Thanks to you and Peter for explaining it.

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Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de>