Laetitia Avrot <laetitia.av...@gmail.com> writes:
> Thank you so much for your suggestion. I was really excited to find a
> generic term for Functions and Procedures, but "routine" also includes
> aggregation functions which I had excluded from my feature (see Postgres
> Glossary here:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/glossary.html#GLOSSARY-ROUTINE).
> I had decided not to include aggregate functions when I designed my patch
> because I thought most users wouldn't expect them in the result file. Was I
> wrong?
I'd vote for treating them as functions for this purpose. I'd put
them in the same category as window functions: we use a separate
name for them for historical reasons, but they still walk and quack
pretty much like functions.
regards, tom lane
