Re: Need help with clarification on stored procedure support in PostGreSQL database

"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 9:41 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> This seems like an important consideration. I've spent 10 minutes
>>> searching the documentation for PG 11 and can't find where it is
>>> documented. Perhaps it should be made more prominent?

>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/xproc.html

> CREATE FUNCTION links into 37.3 but CREATE PROCEDURE doesn't link into 37.4
> Even if this may not be sufficient it seems reasonable to at least remain
> consistent. I suspect most people start at CREATE, not "Server
> Programming".

Yeah, fair point, and it also seems like we ought to give those links
more prominence. In the attached proposed patch, I put them into the
introductory section of the reference pages. I also failed to resist
the temptation to do some wordsmithing in 38.4 ...

regards, tom lane