Re: Two fixes for plpgsql.sgml

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>]

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> --- 132,142 ----
>       </para>
>   
>       <para>
> !      <application>PL/pgSQL</> functions can also be declared to return a
> !      group of values, either as a single row, or a group of rows, like a
> !      table.  Such a function generates its output by executing
> !      <command>RETURN NEXT</> for each desired element of the result set,
> !      or by using <command>RETURN QUERY</> to output the result of
>        evaluating a query.
>       </para>

Hmm, ISTM the correct terminology is "set of rows".  I have never heard
of "a group of rows".  It seems to me the easiest way out of the problem
would have been substituting the commas in the original with parens:

     <application>PL/pgSQL</> functions can also be declared to return
     a <quote>set</> (or <quote>table</>) of any data type they can return a single
     instance of.

The point of "any datatype they can return a single instance of" is that
this can be a set of scalar values (e.g. "RETURNS SETOF int") or of a
complex type ("RETURNS SETOF table"), or anything else they can return a
single instance of :-P (SETOF anyelement?  SETOF table%TYPE?)

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