Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On tor, 2010-09-09 at 13:08 -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
Since Pg's FUNCTION already seems to take on both roles, so
overloading the meaning of the FUNCTION keyword, like what a C
function or a Perl sub does, where returning VOID means procedure,
then what is being added by a distinct PROCEDURE?
I'd just like to have the CALL statement, because
CALL do_something();
looks better than
SELECT do_something();
Small details ...
I don't have a problem with the PERFORM keyword aside from it being more verbose
than CALL, except that, with 8.4 anyway, PERFORM doesn't seem to work
client-side. It seems that to invoke a VOID function foo client-side I still
have to say "SELECT foo(...);" because saying "PERFORM foo(...);" is
unfortunately a syntax error. -- Darren Duncan
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