Re: Procedures

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 06:10:52PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 02:30:55PM +0100, Robin Abbi wrote:
> > PostgreSQL went as far as release 10 without procedures.
> > Some third party resources written before 11 loosely conflate procedures with
> > functions.
> > Some third party resources written before 11 accurately state PostgreSQL has
> > functions but not procedures.
> > Referring to the PostgreSQL docs for 11 on, procedures have been added.
> >
> > For someone like me, coming to the subject without much of a hinterland other
> > than googling around, it seemed clear that there was a motivating case that
> > caused Procedures to be added to PostgreSQL, but I was not sufficiently
> > familiar with the domain to be able to readily intuit what it might have been.
> >
> > For example, Procedures say they have no return value, yet Functions can return
> > void. Not the same I agree, but I wouldn't be aware in which circumstances it
> > mattered.
> >
> > For me, perhaps the most useful thing would have been a small example
> > highlighting the essential thing(s) that procedures can do that functions could
> > not.
>
> Agreed, this doc area needs help.

I developed the attached patach for this. Is this sufficient?

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