Re: COPY error handling

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 14:11:19 +0000,
> Bricklen <bricklen-rem(at)yahoo(dot)comz> wrote:
>
>>Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct group for this question, but
>>I'll post it hoping that it is.
>>I'm loading several ~15 million row files into a table using the COPY
>>command. Apparently one of the rows, about 6 million in, has an invalid
>>entry. This is causing the COPY command to fail, so my question is this:
>>Is there any way to skip invalid rows? Or send them to a separate log
>>file etc to go through later?
>>I've gone through the docs, but I didn't see anything specific to this.
>>Any information, links, or hints are greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Currently there isn't a builtin way to do this. You can pass the data
> through a filter script that removes rows that are not in a proper format.
>
Thanks for the clarification!

Cheers,

Bricklen