On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:56:43PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On 3/16/06, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > this small patch allow use sql for creating wrappers others void
> > functions. Currently void SQL function have to be empty.
> >
> > create or replace function foo(int) returns void as ' ',''
> > language c ..; create or replace function foo() returns void as $$
> > select foo(10); $$language sql;
> >
>
> i'm not clear on what the use case of this can be... of course, my
> opinion is not very important :)
I can think of a case. Let's imagine you want to do (roughly) the
equivalent of CALL, which we don't have yet. This would let you have
what amounts to a stored procedure, i.e. something that takes an
action but doesn't return rows. :)
Cheers,
D
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