Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Another problem is that the CREATE FUNCTION syntax doesn't insist on any
>> particular ordering of the attributes;
>> 
> This is so at the moment, while all samples use AS .... LANGUAGE. This 
> could stay free format if quoted as usual, and require it strict if the 
> new format is used.

Considering that someone earlier in this thread was specifically asking
to put LANGUAGE before the function body (apparently unaware that he
already could), I doubt we can get away with removing that flexibility.

> Initially,  I didn't want to suggest an additional 
> keyword like ENDFUNC or ENDAS, but now I do.

Once you say that, there's not a lot of distance to letting psql do it
with \beginlit ... \endlit (or some other yet-to-be-chosen names).

                        regards, tom lane

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