A reader, September 18, 2020 - 5:53 am UTC
Typically, the values of the outputs are only used when the function ends successfully. However, I found this behavior to be very strange, as it had never been detected before.
Thanks for your answer and explanations.
September 21, 2020 - 1:54 am UTC
Same with me.
The reason I could answer this question easily is I encountered it a few years back for the first time as well and investigated with the PLSQL product manager at the time. It was that discussion that led to the sentence being added to the documentation :-)