Re: 2024-02-08 release announcement draft

jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 1:17 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>> > On 2/6/24 3:19 AM, jian he wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 12:43 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>> >>> * In PL/pgSQL, support SQL commands that are `CREATE FUNCTION`/`CREATE
>> >>> PROCEDURE` with SQL-standard bodies.
>>
>> >> https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=57b440ec115f57ff6e6a3f0df26063822e3123d2
>> >> says only for plpgsql routine or DO block.
>>
>> > I had some trouble wordsmithing this, but the commit title is pretty
>> > clear to me so I opted for that.
>>
>> Your text seems fine to me. I'm confused about the objection here:
>> exactly what uses of plpgsql aren't in a routine or DO block?
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>
> I guess I was confused with cases like this
> `
> create function test1() returns int language plpgsql
> begin atomic
> select unique1 from tenk1 limit 1;
> end ;
> `
> looking back, the original text seems fine.

The word "routine" is the SQL standard's common term for both functions
and procedures.

- ilmari