Declares a routine interface for use in database definition
statements. A routine is either a function or a procedure.
The declared routine acts as a template for calls to the function
or procedure in DDL statements such as CREATE TABLE, CREATE VIEW
and CREATE MODULE. The template allows Rdb to validate that
the routine is correctly named, is passed the correct number
of parameters and that those parameters are passed compatible
arguments. For functions the returned data type is used to
calculate data types for COMPUTED BY, AUTOMATIC and other stored
value expressions.
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