Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I think it wouldn't be an unreasonable thing to just interpret a
> SELECT with no INTO clause as being a PERFORM (ie execute and
> discard results).
FWIW, that would probably confuse people coming from MS SQL Server
or Sybase ASE, since doing that in Transact-SQL would return a
result set. Any stored procedure can produce an arbitrarily
intermixed stream of result sets, information lines, and error
messages.
-Kevin
