Re: regarding functions and storedprocedures

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Vibhor Kumar <vibhor(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
> wrote:

>
> On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:38 AM, siva kiran balijepalli wrote:
>
> > If there is no difference between functions and stored
> procedures, my doubt i show does the server know whether we are writing a
> function or stored procedure. As per my knowledge in oracle a function must
> return a value where as stored procedure cannot. IS this also true in
> postgresql. If yes how can we acheive it?
>
>
> As I have already mentioned, PG Only Support Functions and whatever you
> want to implement/acheive you can do with Functions too.
> About returning novalue from Function, you can write a function which will
> not return any value (return VOID).
> Following is an link which you can use for information on Functions.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createfunction.html
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Vibhor Kumar
> EnterpriseDB Corporation
> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
> vibhor(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
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Do check below link:
http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/15-Stored-Procedures-in-PostgreSQL.html

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