Re: PQputCopyData dont signal error

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PQputCopyData dont signal error
Date: 2011-04-14 07:56:24
Message-ID: BANLkTinBi3fm1+pbWR_UYUTpO=QVx_rdZw@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

>
> The way COPY works is that PQputCopyData just sends the data to the server,
> and the server will buffer it in its internal buffer and processes it when
> it feels like it. The PQputCopyData() calls don't even need to match line
> boundaries.
>

Yes, it is current behave - then documentation is obsolete

> I think you'll need to send all the data and finish the COPY until you get
> an error. If you have a lot of data to send, you might want to slice it into
> multiple COPY statements of say 50MB each, so that you can catch errors in
> between.

:( I wold to import table in one statement

Regards

Pavel Stehule

>
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>  Heikki Linnakangas
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