Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a ascii dump file based on the COPY operation.
>
> lets say I restore this dump into a live database with applications
> doing INSERTs and UPDATEs onto it.
>
> in case the COPY of a register causes a primary key (or UNIQUE, or FK)
> violation does the psql restore command try to continue the operation
> until it has parsed the whole dump, or does it abort on the first
> violation ?
Copy is all or nothing. It'll abort as soon as a violation happens.
the bulkloader on pgfoundry (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgbulkload/)
can apparently handle this for you...
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