Re: Avoid transaction abot if/when constraint violated - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: Avoid transaction abot if/when constraint violated
Date
Msg-id 4B4FB42A.5080207@hogranch.com
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In response to Avoid transaction abot if/when constraint violated  ("Gauthier, Dave" <dave.gauthier@intel.com>)
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Gauthier, Dave wrote:
>
> Hello !
>
> I have a long list of records I want to insert into a table in such a
> way as I can trap and report any/all constraint violations before
> rolling back (or opting to commit). Unfortunately, after I hit the
> first constraint violation, it aborts the transaction, and then
> reports “ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until
> end of transaction block”.
>
> Is there a way around this?
>

use savepoints inside the transaction for each insert. your app will
have to figure out how to track the errors if it wants to postpone any
rollback/commit decision til the end.


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