Re: [HACKERS] Continue transactions after errors in psql

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> I'm finding it hard to visualize a non-interactive script making
> any good use of such a setting.  Without a way to test whether
> you got an error or not, it would amount to an "ignore errors
> within transactions" mode, which seems a pretty bad idea.
>
> Can you show a plausible use-case for such a thing?

I could have used this yesterday. I was populating a test table with
a primary key on two columns and needed to add a bunch of random rows.
I generated a 10_000 line file of one insert statement each. Rather than
worrying about collisions, I could simply \rollbackonerror (or whatever
we're calling it today :) and silently discard the handful that happen
to violate the primary key constraint and let the rest insert.

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