Re: COPY command and skipping errors

Tomeh, Husam wrote:
>
> Is there a way to skip errors during the run of the COPY command
> (loading data from a file to a table) like what Oracle SQL*Loader has?
> The reason I'm asking is that if the extract file from the mainframe has
> an invalid character, the COPY terminates and doesn't continue loading
> the rest of records.

No, but it is on the TODO list:

o Allow COPY to report error lines and continue

This requires the use of a savepoint before each COPY line is
processed, with ROLLBACK on COPY failure.

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