Re: Bulkloading using COPY - ignore duplicates?

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:17:43PM +0100, Lee Kindness wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>  > I'm especially not pleased at the notion of removing an error check
>  > that's always been there because someone else thinks that would make it
>  > more convenient for his application.
> 
> Please, don't get me wrong - I don't want to come across arrogant. I'm
> simply trying to improve the 'COPY FROM' command in a situation where
> speed is a critical issue and the data is dirty... And that must be a
> relatively common scenario in industry.

Isn't that when you do your bulk copy into into a holding table, then
clean it up, and then insert into your live system?

Patrick