Re: Error-safe user functions

"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> Why not do away with two separate functions and define a composite type
> (boolean, text) for is_valid to return?

I don't see any advantage to that.  It would be harder to use in both
use-cases.

>> BTW, does anyone else agree that 9.26 is desperately in need of some
>> <sect2> subdivisions?  It seems to have gotten a lot longer since
>> I looked at it last.

> I'd be inclined to do something like what we are attempting for Chapter 28
> Monitoring Database Activity; introduce pagination through refentry and
> build our own table of contents into it.

I'd prefer to follow the model that already exists in 9.27,
ie break it up with <sect2>'s, which provide a handy
sub-table-of-contents.

            regards, tom lane