Re: Some comments on PL/Python documentation

On 08.01.25 09:45, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> 44.2.5. Set-Returning Functions
>> 1. You say: '...Sequence type (tuple, list, set)...'
>> Being an unordered collection, sets do not record element position or
>> order
>> of insertion. Accordingly, sets do not support indexing, slicing, or
>> other
>> sequence-like behavior.
>> See
>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#set-types-set-frozenset
>
> I think this is correct as it is.  Python sets can be iterated over, so
> this works.  Note that earlier in the page under composite types it says
> "but not a set because it is not indexable", so this distinction was
> taken into consideration.

I have added a test for returning Python sets from SETOF functions. It
makes sense to test this if the documentation claims it.