Re: Two fixes for plpgsql.sgml

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Two fixes for plpgsql.sgml
Date: 2007-11-28 20:38:01
Message-ID: 20923.1196282281@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Agreed. I couldn't find any value to that phrase and couldn't find better
> wording, so I removed it. Patch attached and applied.

This is not an improvement.

The point of the original wording is that you have to say
RETURNS SETOF sometype
you can't just say, eg,
RETURNS SET

Your new wording would lead the reader to the assumption that he can
just declare a function as returning "set".

Please revert the change.

regards, tom lane

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