Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1khzZ8-0005pt-97 for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:30:54 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1khzZ6-0002v8-RF for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:30:52 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1khzZ6-0002v0-L3 for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:30:52 +0000 Received: from momjian.us ([72.94.173.45]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1khzZ0-0000qL-3W for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:30:52 +0000 Received: from bruce by momjian.us with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1khzYy-0004en-Dn; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:30:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:30:44 -0500 From: Bruce Momjian To: "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" Cc: "pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Functions should be Functions & Procedures Message-ID: <20201125183044.GF26300@momjian.us> References: <160624532969.25818.4767632047905006142@wrigleys.postgresql.org> <20201125181418.GE26300@momjian.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:23:44PM +0000, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > >On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 07:15:29PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > >> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > >> > >> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/plpgsql-overview.html > >> Description: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> since PostgreSQL 11 we have procedures, so referencing to only functions > >> here seems to ignore that. Shouldn't procedures be mentioned here as well? > > >Good point.  It seems PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Tcl, and SPI > >server-side languages all support procedures.  I have developed the > >attached patch to mention procedures right at the top.  I didn't see a > >need to mention function "or procedure" throughout the entire document. > >Does this seem sufficient? > > Thanks for looking at it. Seems you attachment is corrupt, at least I can not open it. Can you please resend? It is a gzipp'ed file. I had to use gzip and can't resend it since it contains the T-C-L URL that is flagged by Spamhaus as spam and causes my emails to be marked as spam. You can see the patch here: https://momjian.us/tmp/proc.txt -- Bruce Momjian https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee