Patch applied for 9.0.  We don't normally backpatch such documentation
improvements unless we receive multiple reports of confusion.

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Alexey Klyukin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We were asked by Enova Financial to improve the documentation of PL/Perl 
> database access functions.
> Alvaro and me worked on that and we produced the patch that is attached. It 
> splits initial block of functions
> into the groups with the description directly following each of the group, 
> corrects couple of mistakes and
> adds an example.
> 
> One of the existing mistakes was confusion in definitions of 
> spi_exec_prepared and spi_query_prepared.
> Another one is usage of INTEGER type to return the result of spi_prepare in 
> the example for prepared queries.
> When trying to execute that function I've got the following error:
> 
> postgres=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION init() RETURNS INTEGER AS $#
>       $_SHARED{my_plan} = spi_prepare( 'SELECT (now() + $1)::date AS now', 
> 'INTERVAL');
> $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
> 
> CREATE FUNCTION
> 
> postgres=# select init();
> ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "0x1007d6f40"
> CONTEXT:  PL/Perl function "init"
> 
> Since the return value is not used anyway, I've changed the return type of 
> the function declaration in the example to VOID.
> 
> I think this is a good reason to suggest backpatching these changes  down to 
> 8.2. 
> 
> 

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