On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 10:10 AM PG Doc comments form <
nore...@postgresql.org> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-createfunction.html
> Description:
>
> the documentation for creating a function shows [ RETURNS rettype | RETURNS
> TABLE ( column_name column_type [, ...] ) ] but returns is not optional. At
> least when specifying LANGUAGE plpgsql. All the online advice suggests
> specifying RETURNS void as the solution.
>
As with most conditionally option things in the docs reading the
description for the item tells you when it can be omitted.
rettype: "When there are OUT or INOUT parameters, the RETURNS clause can be
omitted."
David J.
