Re: Pre-v11 appearances of the word "procedure" in v11 docs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pre-v11 appearances of the word "procedure" in v11 docs
Date: 2018-08-14 17:18:45
Message-ID: 5193.1534267125@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> I noticed that the word "procedure" appears in at least a few places
> in the v11 docs as a not-quite-apt synonym of "function". For example,
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/static/plpgsql-trigger.html talks
> about "PL/pgSQL Trigger Procedures" which are actually all functions
> in practice.

Agreed, we'd better stop being cavalier about whether that's an
exact synonym or not.

regards, tom lane

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