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 Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 3:21 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> Instead of "The difference" or "One difference" I would suggest:
>>> "However, a procedure does not return a value, so there is no return type
>>> declaration; though a procedure can declare INOUT (but not plain OUT)
>>> parameters."

>> Not sure if that's an improvement.

> The "however" part is probably a wash; I just dislike seeing a count
> started and not having an ending and thus being left in a state of "what
> didn't they include that's important".

The rest of the paragraph is what's important enough to include here.

I very strongly dislike the existing "The difference ..." wording,
because it implies that that's the only difference, which is immediately
belied by the rest. "However" isn't a lot better. Would it be better
to turn the para into a bulleted list, which we could introduce with
"The key differences are:" ?

regards, tom lane