I can also achieve the same functionality using a function. So it’s not all that important now. But after a long time you still learn something new
Apparently I never had the case that there was an empty data stream at a merge node. (maybe I should look over my old workflows, where … never changing a running system :P)
Currently I have no votes left and if I had a vote left it would definitely end up at the oracle db node.
But it’s good to know that I’m not completely stupid, but that n8n just behaves like that.
Glad to hear you have a workaround in place. You’re also not the first one to be irritated by this, so I too have my fingers crossed the Merge node will receive an update in that regards