Re: procedures and plpgsql PERFORM

Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> We allow a function to be invoked as part of PERFORM statement in plpgsql
> ...
> But we do not allow a procedure to be invoked this way

> Procedures fit that category and like functions, I think, we should
> allow them be invoked directly without any quoting and CALL
> decoration.

How is that going to work?  What if the procedure tries to commit the
current transaction?

IOW, this is not merely a syntactic-sugar question.

            regards, tom lane