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Clarify CREATE FUNCTION documentation about handling of typmods.

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The previous text was a bit misleading, as well as unnecessarily vague
about what information would be discarded.  Per gripe from Craig Skinner.
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Tom Lane
2013-11-13 13:29:45 -05:00
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@ -484,12 +484,13 @@ CREATE [ OR REPLACE ] FUNCTION
<para>
The full <acronym>SQL</acronym> type syntax is allowed for
input arguments and return value. However, some details of the
type specification (e.g., the precision field for
type <type>numeric</type>) are the responsibility of the
underlying function implementation and are silently swallowed
(i.e., not recognized or
enforced) by the <command>CREATE FUNCTION</command> command.
declaring a function's arguments and return value. However,
parenthesized type modifiers (e.g., the precision field for
type <type>numeric</type>) are discarded by <command>CREATE FUNCTION</>.
Thus for example
<literal>CREATE FUNCTION foo (varchar(10)) ...</>
is exactly the same as
<literal>CREATE FUNCTION foo (varchar) ...</>.
</para>
<para>