Re: Can COPY update or skip existing records?

Hi there,
The operation "on_duplicate_key_update" is in implementation on the new
version of Postgres :)
The only way (or, at least, the best way... I think) to do what you want is
using a temporary table... let's see:

/* Creating the structure of the first table (table_01)... You can do it the
way you like */
create table temp_01 as
(select * from table_01 limit 1);

TRUNCATE TABLE table_01;

/* COPY */
COPY temp_01 FROM '/tmp/table';

/* Insert the values */
insert into table_01 a
where not exists
(select 1 from temp_01 b
where
a.cod_serial = b.cod_serial)

/* Or you could do like this */
delete from temp_01 a
where exists
(select 1 from table_01 b
where
a.cod_serial = b.cod_serial)

I hope being helpful.

Best Regards,

Rafael Domiciano
Postgres DBA

2008/9/30 Glenn Gillen <glenn(dot)gillen(at)gmail(dot)com>

> Hey all,
>
> I've got a table with a unique constraint across a few fields which I
> need to regularly import a batch of data into. Is there a way to do it
> with COPY without getting conflicts on the unique contraint? I have no
> was of being certain that some of the data I'm trying to load isn't in
> the table already.
>
> Ideally I'd like it to operate like MySQL's on_duplicate_key_update
> option, but for now I'll suffice with just ignoring existing rows and
> proceeding with everything else.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Glenn
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