On tor, 2010-09-09 at 16:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > You might care to go back and re-read some of the extensive prior > threads about this, but to my mind the main thing that would justify > inventing a separate PROCEDURE facility is if procedures were to > execute outside the transaction system, so that they could start and > stop transactions for themselves.
Given what the SQL standard says, a "procedure" certainly has to be defined as syntactic sugar for "function returns void". Special transaction handling would then have to be an additional attribute of the procedure. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
