"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 1:30 PM PG Doc comments form <nore...@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
