Even in Pascal a procedure and a function are the same except one
returns a result, the other does not.
And it C++ everything is a function, you just set the return type to
void for a proc.
>But AFAICS this is a distinction made by people (like in Pascal) but is
>not a distinction at all. As far as the system is concerned they are
>identical. Everything you can do in one of those "procedures" you can
>do in PostgreSQL now, so what is the problem?
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