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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: Vadim Mikheev <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>
Cc: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>, 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: 2002-01-04T18:16:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Vadim Mikheev wrote:
> > Now, how about the same functionality for
> >
> > INSERT into table1 SELECT * from table2 ... WITH ERRORS;
> >
> > Should allow the insert to complete, even if table1 has unique indexes and
> we
> > try to insert duplicate rows. Might save LOTS of time in bulkloading
> scripts
> > not having to do single INSERTs.
> 
> 1. I prefer Oracle' (and others, I believe) way - put statement(s) in PL
> block and define
> for what exceptions (errors) what actions should be taken (ie IGNORE for
> NON_UNIQ_KEY
> error, etc).

Added to TODO:

	* Allow command blocks that can ignore certain types of errors

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