Re: Two fixes for plpgsql.sgml

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org

Date: 2007-11-28T20:57:28Z

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Agreed. I couldn't find any value to that phrase and couldn't find better
> > wording, so I removed it.  Patch attached and applied.
> 
> This is not an improvement.
> 
> The point of the original wording is that you have to say
> 	RETURNS SETOF sometype
> you can't just say, eg,
> 	RETURNS SET
> 
> Your new wording would lead the reader to the assumption that he can
> just declare a function as returning "set".
> 
> Please revert the change.

I found the original confusing, as did the author, so I updated the docs
again.

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