Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA56664; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:36:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from frankpit@erols.com) Received: from 209-122-242-28.s680.tnt2.lnh.md.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.242.28] helo=erols.com) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 12e3qX-0002hj-00; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:36:54 -0400 Message-ID: <38EFB0A3.C528697E@erols.com> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 18:20:19 -0400 From: Bernard Frankpitt X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Momjian CC: Tom Lane , PostgreSQL-development , PostgreSQL-documentation Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Doc updates References: <200004082142.RAA19080@candle.pha.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200004/25 Hi all, This is documented in two places, both in the CREATE FUNCTION documentation page of the user guide, and in the Developers guide under the section on extending postgres by writing dynamically loaded functions. Is there a man page that needs updating too? Maybe a topic index to the documentation would make it easier to find all the documentation for a particular topic. Is it easy to do that in sgml? Bernie Frankpitt Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Improve CREATE FUNCTION to allow type conversion specification > > > (Bernie Frankpitt) > > > > Huh? I'm not sure what that is. > > OK. Here is the info. Not sure if it is in the man page or not. > Attached is the CVS log, and the actual diff of gram.y for that patch. > > Seems the major change is: > > ! RETURNS func_return opt_with AS Sconst LANGUAGE Sconst > > ! RETURNS func_return opt_with AS func_as LANGUAGE Sconst > ^^^^^^^ > > -- > Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle > pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 > + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue > + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 > >