On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> wrote:
> Personally I would find it surprising if RETURNING did not also return the
> updated tuples. In many use cases for upsert the user does not care if the
> row was new or not.
I'm not attached to that particular behavior, but it does seem kind of
similar to the behavior of BEFORE triggers, where a NULL return value
("do nothing") will also cause RETURNING to not project the tuple.
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Peter Geoghegan