Re: Duplicate key insert question

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:26:08PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:

> > But you should try to use a sequence if at all possible to avoid all
> > these problems.
>
> Does not really avoid the named issue.
>
> Suppose that you have a dictionary of working part numbers (e.g. Boeing
> might have 3 million distinct parts in their database).
> They would like to create a domain for these parts. So, naturally, they
> take their list and do
> %cat list.dat|sort|uniq>list.sor
> And then bulk load list.sor.

Oh, sure. The sequence thing won't apply everywhere. But maybe it can
be applied in his scenario, which I don't know.

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