Re: skip duplicate key error during inserts

From: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: skip duplicate key error during inserts
Date: 2006-10-27 09:56:05
Message-ID: 4541D7B5.7030606@cox.net
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That doesn't help at all during multi-table transactions or
bulk-loads where you want the loader to kick duplicates out to an
exception file.

On 10/27/06 04:41, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
>> If you are using psql, I'd recommend using '\set ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK on'.
[snip]
> The generalized version of this issue (transaction totally fails on
> any error) is extremely painful.
>
> Most RDBMSs (well, ok, the other RDBMSs that *I* have worked with)
> don't do that, and there's a lot of code written in the form:
>
> INSERT INTO ...
> IF PK-ERROR THEN
> UPDATE
> END-IF.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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