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Re: Bulkloading using COPY - ignore duplicates?

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Jim Buttafuoco <jim@buttafuoco.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-01-03T21:15:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Mikheev, Vadim wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > > Seems nested transactions are not required if we load
> > > > each COPY line in its own transaction, like we do with
> > > > INSERT from pg_dump.
> > > 
> > > I don't think that's an acceptable answer.  Consider
> > 
> > Oh, very good point.  "Requires nested transactions" added to TODO.
> 
> Also add performance issue with per-line-commit...
> 
> Also-II - there is more common name for required feature - savepoints.

OK, updated TODO to prefer savepoints term.

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