Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > Robert Haas wrote: >> Since the return value is ignored anyway, why do we have to complain >> if it's left out altogether? Granted, it's easy to work around, but >> still.
> Isn't is a requirement of plpgsql that you not fall off the end of a > function unless it is declared to return void? The function doesn't know > if it will be called before or after. Yeah, it couldn't be done as a compile-time check. You could probably make it work if you converted the error to a run-time test. Not sure if that's really an improvement though. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers