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Re: pl/perl example in the doc no longer works in 9.1

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Amit Khandekar <amit.khandekar@enterprisedb.com>, hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-10-12T16:23:42Z
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On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Well, the real question is why a function declared to return VOID cares
> at all about what the last command in its body is.  If this has changed
> since previous versions then I think it's a bug and we should fix it,
> not just change the example.

It has indeed changed, either in 9.0 or 9.1 (the latter, I think). I had to add a bunch of bare return statements to existing functions.

Best,

David