On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 02:30:55PM +0100, Robin Abbi wrote: > PostgreSQL went as far as release 10 without procedures. > Some third party resources written before 11 loosely conflate procedures with > functions. > Some third party resources written before 11 accurately state PostgreSQL has > functions but not procedures. > Referring to the PostgreSQL docs for 11 on, procedures have been added. > > For someone like me, coming to the subject without much of a hinterland other > than googling around, it seemed clear that there was a motivating case that > caused Procedures to be added to PostgreSQL, but I was not sufficiently > familiar with the domain to be able to readily intuit what it might have been. > > For example, Procedures say they have no return value, yet Functions can > return > void. Not the same I agree, but I wouldn't be aware in which circumstances it > mattered. > > For me, perhaps the most useful thing would have been a small example > highlighting the essential thing(s) that procedures can do that functions > could > not.
Agreed, this doc area needs help. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
