Thanks Dann, Michael and Oliver. I guess that a temporary table is what
I should use. I thought about doing it that way initially but thought
I'd see if perhaps I was missing a better way.
Ron
Ron St-Pierre wrote:
> I wish to insert data into a table from a very large text file (from a
> cron script) using COPY. However if the lName (TEXT), fName(TEXT),
> workDate(DATE) already exist I don't want to insert data and just want
> to move onto the next record. Is there any way I can tell my bash
> script/COPY to ignore the case where the unique constraint exists
> (lName,fName,workDate), and move on to the next record?
>
> ps 7.4, debian stable
> TIA
> Ron
>
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