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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) ...</>.
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