Re: pg_stat_reset round 3

Christopher Kings-Lynne dijo:

> > Interesting that all callable function must return a type. I did:
> >
> > test=> select proname from pg_proc where prorettype = 0;
> >
> > and none of the functions with 0 prorettype can be called from psql. I
> > guess boolean is the best we can do. I guess because it is a function
> > it has to return something.
>
> Yeah, because otherwise what does the SELECT return? It has to return at
> least one column? It would be odd to just go SELECT blah() and have the
> prompt just come back to you. However, it would be nice to be able to go
> "CALL blah()" and have it return nothing except maybe a 'CALL' string.

What's so bad about returning a SQL NULL in SELECT ? Seems an arbitrary
limitation to me.

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