Re: Two fixes for plpgsql.sgml

Bruce Momjian a écrit :
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>[...]
>> The point of "any datatype they can return a single instance of" is that
>> this can be a set of scalar values (e.g. "RETURNS SETOF int") or of a
>> complex type ("RETURNS SETOF table"), or anything else they can return a
>> single instance of :-P (SETOF anyelement? SETOF table%TYPE?)
>
> Good idea, updated:
>
> <application>PL/pgSQL</> functions can also be declared to return
> a <quote>set</> (or table) of any data type that can be returned as
> a single instance. Such a function generates its output by executing
> <command>RETURN NEXT</> for each desired element of the result
> set, or by using <command>RETURN QUERY</> to output the result of
> evaluating a query.
>

Great. Now I better understand this part. Thank you all.

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