Pre-v11 appearances of the word "procedure" in v11 docs

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Pre-v11 appearances of the word "procedure" in v11 docs
Date: 2018-08-13 23:13:04
Message-ID: CAH2-WznUiqXMLmpHo6U5qTNa29Tb4PfYjyfXapQEvUJ5QqXpJA@mail.gmail.com
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I noticed that the word "procedure" appears in at least a few places
in the v11 docs as a not-quite-apt synonym of "function". For example,
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/static/plpgsql-trigger.html talks
about "PL/pgSQL Trigger Procedures" which are actually all functions
in practice.

I think that this has the potential to confuse users, since, of
course, a function is a distinct variety of object to a procedure in
v11. Tightening up the wording seems like a good idea. I'm not sure if
this was discussed already, but didn't find anything during a quick
search.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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