Re: CREATE FUNCTION reference page's Notes section is getting out of hand

Tom Lane wrote:
> I observe that the Notes section here
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-createfunction.html
> has turned into a disorganized laundry list of unrelated items,
> ranging from quite-subtle issues to barely-useful-even-to-novices
> advice (do we really need "Use DROP FUNCTION to remove user-defined
> functions" here? Especially given the See Also link later on?).
>
> I don't have an immediate proposal what to do about it, but it seems
> like it could use some effort. Any thoughts?

Yea, it is hard to read. What I did was to move some items up into
their proper sections, and add an "Overloading" heading. You can see
the results here:

http://momjian.us/tmp/pgsql/sql-createfunction.html

and a patch is attached.

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