Re: order of statements in create function

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:02:51 +0200, Markus Bertheau
<twanger@bluetwanger.de> wrote:
> В Птн, 09.07.2004, в 20:24, Alvaro Herrera пишет:
> > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 07:16:14PM +0200, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> >
> > > why does everyone write
> > >
> > > CREATE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS INTEGER AS '
> > > blah blah
> > > ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
> > >
> > > I've never seen for example:
> > >
> > > CREATE FUNCTION foo()
> > >     RETURNS INTEGER
> > >     LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
> > >     AS '
> > > blah blah
> > > ';
> > >
> > > Is there a special reason to this? I have a hard time believing that
> > > everyone does it the same way by coincidence.
> >
> > I think previous versions only allowed the language specification at the
> > end.  I got used to putting it before the function text though, so if
> > you are able to read something written by me you'd see that.
> >
> > That was your point, wasn't it?
>

As an aside, if you look in the book PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas, he
uses examples with the type before body style formatting. It was so
wierd when I looked at it I had to try it myself just to make sure it
worked :-)  If you look in the docs though, they use the "normal"
formatting which is why most people stick to that convention.

Robert Treat
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