Re: Mention RETURNING ... INTO target

"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 1:30 PM PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
> wrote:
>> It looks like INSERT INTO ... RETURNING allows defining a target for the
>> returned values like SELECT ... INTO does.

> That isn't how it works.  RETURNING simply turns INSERT into a result set
> producing SQL Command.  And SQL doesn't have a concept of "target"
> (variables) in the sense you are thinking. pg/pgsql does, allowing result
> set data to be placed into variables.

Right.  And in fact this *is* documented in the context of pl/pgsql:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-SQL-ONEROW

            regards, tom lane