Perhaps it could be explicitly stated on that page, then? Part of the
confusion arises from the semantic differences between SELECT INTO and
CREATE TABLE AS SELECT solely as used within PL/pgSQL, which is exacerbated
for people coming from a different SQL variant, such as T-SQL. I agree that
the do
PG Doc comments form writes:
> Since I was recently bitten by the fact that CREATE TABLE AS doesn't set the
> PL/pgSQL variable FOUND, it would be nice if that were explicitly noted in
> the documentation. Alternatively, if it COULD set the FOUND variable, that
> would be great, although I realiz
