From 66a43aed99bb58b48ca911a27e1a534a5588fc01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:26:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix broken markup. --- doc/src/sgml/release.sgml | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index 3f286800cf..da8052ebbb 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml @@ -1243,17 +1243,18 @@ $PostgreSQL$ - Allow SQL, plperl, PL/PgSQL functions to use OUT and + Allow SQL and PL/PgSQL functions to use OUT and INOUT parameters (Tom) OUT is an alternate way for a function to return - values. Instead of using RETURNS, the function's - parameters can be specified as OUT or - INOUT, allowing multiple values to be returned by - the function. While returning multiple values from a function + values. Instead of using RETURN, values can be + returned by assigning to parameters declared as OUT or + INOUT. This is notationally simpler in some cases, + particularly so when multiple values need to be returned. + While returning multiple values from a function was possible in previous releases, this greatly simplifies the - process. + process. (The feature will be extended to other PLs in due course.) @@ -1261,10 +1262,8 @@ $PostgreSQL$ Move language handlers into the pg_catalog schema - - This makes it possible to dump installed languages and makes it - easier to drop the public schema. + This makes it easier to drop the public schema if desired. -- 2.39.5