2013/8/27 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>

> Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes:
> > 2013/8/27 David E. Wheeler <da...@justatheory.com>
> >> But whatever the keyword, I think it makes sense to require one to
> return
> >> results to the caller. Any query that does not return, yield, or capture
> >> (select into) values should just have its results discarded.
>
> > A usual and first solution and syntax is defined by Sybase - we can
> define
> > own syntax, but I don't think so it is necessary be original everywhere.
> > My opinion is surely subjective - this feature is one from few features
> > that are nice on T-SQL.
>
> We aren't following T-SQL on any other syntax detail, so why would we
> start with this one?  plpgsql is meant to follow Oracle syntax not T-SQL.
>
> I agree with David that we should use some new syntax to specify
> return-results-directly-to-client, assuming we ever get any such
> functionality.  It seems like a pretty bad choice of default behavior,
> which is essentially what you're saying it should be.
>

this functionality should be disabled in functions. This can be allowed
only for procedures started by CALL statements. I don't propose it for
functions.

Regards

Pavel


>
>                         regards, tom lane
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