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46.4. Anonymous Code Blocks #

PL/Python also supports anonymous code blocks called with the DO statement:

DO $$
    # PL/Python code
$$ LANGUAGE plpython3u;

An anonymous code block receives no arguments, and whatever value it might return is discarded. Otherwise it behaves just like a function.

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