Re: Copy From & Insert UNLESS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Copy From & Insert UNLESS
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Msg-id 43E66B1F.60707@agliodbs.com
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In response to Copy From & Insert UNLESS  (James William Pye <pgsql@jwp.name>)
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Folks,

> The subject of this letter is referring to giving INSERT and COPY FROM STDIN
> the ability to alter the destination of rows that violate any constraints named
> in a user specified set.

BTW,  just in case anyone thinks that James is not addressing a real and 
widespread problem, Joe Conway said in his presentation on Symer's 1.2 
TB databases that the single most painful thing they had to deal with in 
the implementation is filtering out bad rows before COPY (from OSCON2005 
presentation).

--Josh


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