Re: problem with FOUND and EXECUTE in pl/pgsql

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
>> seems I don't understand how FOUND variable in pl/pgsql function defined,
>> when I use EXECUTE of PERFORM. There is no problem when I use plain SQL.
>
> EXECUTE doesn't affect FOUND, even if the statement-to-be-executed would
> have.  There's been some discussion about changing that, but no
> movement.

I think this should be clarified in docs.
Hmm, simple update-or-insert function in case of EXECUTE became
complicated. I had to use RETURNING xxx INTO yyy and check yyy for NULL
value.

     Regards,
         Oleg
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