Another way is break the transaction. Instead of consisting of many
inserts, each insert is a transaction itself.
Do a Begin and a Commit (or rollback) circling the insert statement.
HTH
Rodrigo Malara
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 às 14:41, scott.marlowe escreveu:
> Another good way to handle this is to put a trigger on the table that
> diverts inserts that would fail to a holding table. While this will slow
> down the inserts, it will allow you to insert large lists of dubious
> quality and worry about the bad rows later.
>
> My preference is to fix the data feed, or pre-process it with PHP/Perl to
> split it into two files ahead of time, but I'm more of a coder than a dba.
> I get a lot of data to import from other sources at work, and it's often
> easier to make the sources fix their data feeds than it is to try and
> massage them each and every time.
>
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Chris Travers wrote:
>
> > Transactions are atomic. What you are asking to do violates the whole
> > concept of a transaction.
> >
> > You can, however, do these inserts outside of the transaction block.
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> > Chris Travers
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Ochs" <chris(at)paymentonline(dot)com>
> > To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 7:52 AM
> > Subject: [GENERAL] problems with transaction blocks
> >
> >
> > > I want to do a series of inserts within a single transaction block, but
> > with
> > > postgresql if one insert fails, the whole block is aborted. Is there any
> > > way to get around this behavior so that postgresql won't abort the entire
> > > transaction if a single insert returns an error?
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
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