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From Alexander Farber
Subject Re: if not exists (SELECT 1... UNION SELECT 1...)
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In response to Re: if not exists (SELECT 1... UNION SELECT 1...)  (Ralf Schuchardt <rasc@gmx.de>)
Responses Re: if not exists (SELECT 1... UNION SELECT 1...)  (Alexander Farber <alexander.farber@gmail.com>)
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Ah, thank you Ralf! That has explained it (because I was still grumbling...)

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:44 PM Ralf Schuchardt <rasc@gmx.de> wrote:

You must rather end the assignment with a semicolon:

out_text := '___WRONG___';
RETURN;

Otherwise what really happens is:

out_text := '___WRONG___' RETURN;

where „return“ is a simple column name as in this select statement:

select '___WRONG___' return;


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