Re: PL/pgSQL 1.2

From: Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PL/pgSQL 1.2
Date: 2014-09-04 12:37:34
Message-ID: -8928095228137475260@unknownmsgid
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On 4 sep 2014, at 11:42, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

2014-09-04 11:22 GMT+02:00 Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>:
>
> The point was, RETURNS returns 1 while RETURNS SETOF returns 0 .. n.
>

no RETURNS return "VALUE" (it is not a row) .. and in combination with
SELECT - value will be a row. RETURNS SETOF returns rows

I intentionally excluded the data type of what is returned.
1 "VALUE" vs 0...n "VALUES"
Do you still fail to see the point 1 "VALUE" is special in the context of
what a function returns?

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