Re: Bulkloading using COPY - ignore duplicates? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Bulkloading using COPY - ignore duplicates?
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Msg-id 200201030324.g033OQe25713@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bulkloading using COPY - ignore duplicates?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Bulkloading using COPY - ignore duplicates?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> > How about for TODO:
> >     * Allow COPY to report error lines and continue; requires
> >     nested transactions;  optionally allow error codes to be specified
> 
> Okay, that seems reasonable.

Good.  Now that I think of it, nested transactions don't seem required. 
We already allow pg_dump to dump a database using INSERTs, and we don't
put those inserts in a single transaction when we load them:CREATE TABLE "test" (        "x" integer);INSERT INTO
"test"VALUES (1);INSERT INTO "test" VALUES (2);
 

Should we be wrapping these INSERTs in a transaction?  Can we do COPY
with each row being its own transaction?

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