Re: Procedures

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robin Abbi <robin(dot)abbi(at)downley(dot)net>, Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks>, Pg Docs <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Procedures
Date: 2020-08-22 17:14:47
Message-ID: 20200822171447.GF26781@momjian.us
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:42:35PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 3:52 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
>
> > Agreed, this doc area needs help.
>
> I developed the attached patach for this.  Is this sufficient?
>
>
> For consistency I would change "statement" to "command" at the end of that
> paragraph .
>
>       the <xref linkend="sql-call"/> command.
>
> and to contrast with "a part of" I would modify the following fragment to read:
>
>     a procedure is called in isolation
>
> Taken together:
>
> While a function is called as part of a query or DML command, a procedure is
> called in isolation using the <xref linked="sql-call"/> command.
>
> And then swap the order of, and tweak, the transaction and isolation sentences:
>
> [...] the CALL command.  If the CALL command is not part of an explicit
> transaction a procedure can also manage multiple transactions during its
> execution.

OK, how is this updated patch?

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