Re: Change COPY ... ON_ERROR ignore to ON_ERROR ignore_row

On 09/02/26 00:59, jian he wrote:
>> Thanks, overall the patch looks good to me. I'm attaching a diff with
>> just some small tweaks on documentation and error messages. Please see
>> and check if it's make sense.
>>
> In the function CopyFrom, we have:
>          if (cstate->opts.on_error == COPY_ON_ERROR_IGNORE &&
>              cstate->escontext->error_occurred)
>          {
>              cstate->escontext->error_occurred = false;
>              pgstat_progress_update_param(PROGRESS_COPY_TUPLES_SKIPPED,
>                                           cstate->num_errors);
> 
> That means PROGRESS_COPY_TUPLES_SKIPPED applied for COPY_ON_ERROR_IGNORE only.
> So
>        <para>
>         Number of tuples skipped because they contain malformed data.
>         This counter only advances when
>         <literal>ignore</literal> is specified to the <literal>ON_ERROR</literal>
>         option.
>        </para></entry>
> should be ok.
> 
Ok, agree.

>> I'm wondering if we should have an else if block on
>> CopyFromTextLikeOneRow() when cstate->cur_attval is NULL to handle
>> COPY_ON_ERROR_SET_NULL when log_verbosity is set to
>> COPY_LOG_VERBOSITY_VERBOSE
>>
>> if (cstate->opts.on_error == COPY_ON_ERROR_IGNORE)
>>      ereport(NOTICE,
>>              errmsg("skipping row due to data type incompatibility at line %" PRIu64 " for column \"%s\": null input",
>>                     cstate->cur_lineno,
>>                     cstate->cur_attname));
>> + else if (cstate->opts.on_error == COPY_ON_ERROR_SET_NULL)
>> +     ereport(NOTICE,
>> +             errmsg("setting to null due to data type incompatibility at line %" PRIu64 " for column \"%s\": null input",
>> +                    cstate->cur_lineno,
>> +                    cstate->cur_attname));
>>
> 
> CopyFromTextLikeOneRow, we have:
>          cstate->cur_attname = NameStr(att->attname);
>          cstate->cur_attval = string;
> 
> even if "string" is NULL (two InputFunctionCallSafe function call with
> "str" value as NULL), it will fail at
> ```
>                  else if (string == NULL)
>                      ereport(ERROR,
>                              errcode(ERRCODE_NOT_NULL_VIOLATION),
>                              errmsg("null value in column \"%s\"
> violates not-null constraint of domain %s",
>                                     cstate->cur_attname,
> format_type_be(typioparams[m])),
>                              errdatatype(typioparams[m]));
> ```
> so i think condition like:
> if (cstate->opts.log_verbosity == COPY_LOG_VERBOSITY_VERBOSE &&
>      cstate->cur_attval == NULL &&
>      cstate->opts.on_error == COPY_ON_ERROR_SET_NULL)
> is not reachable.
> therefore I didn't add the ELSE IF block.
> 
Ok, make sense. I've tested and it seems correct.

> inspired by your change, I further simplified the error handling code.
> 
Thanks for the new version. It looks good to me. I don't have any 
other comments.

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