plpgsql functions and NULLs

OK, I have a function that finds records that changed in a set of
tables and attempts to insert them into a data warehouse.

There's a large outer loop of candidate rows and I inspect them to see
if the values really changed before inserting.

My problem is that when I look to see if the row exists in the
warehouse already, based on some IDs, it fails when an ID is NULL.
The ID is nullable, so that's not a problem.

But I'm forced to write an IF statement looking for the potential NULL
and write 2 queries:

IF omcr_id is null
select * from ....
WHERE omcr_id is NULL
AND ...
ELSE
select * from ....
WHERE omcr_id=candidate.omcr_id
AND ....
END IF;

IF FOUND
...

Is there a way to do the lookup in one statement?? This could get ugly
quick. I'm using v7.4.

Thanks.

-Don

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