On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 2:40 PM Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:59:09 +0900
> Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 11:28 AM Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I found that the documentation of COPY ON_ERROR said
> > > COPY stops operation at the first error when
> > > "ON_ERROR is not specified.", but it also stop when
> > > ON_ERROR is specified to the default value, "stop".
> > >
> > > I attached a very small patch to fix this just for
> > > making the description more accurate.
> >
> > Thank you for the patch!
> >
> > +1 to fix it.
> >
> > - <literal>ON_ERROR</literal> is not specified. This
> > - should not lead to problems in the event of a <command>COPY
> > + <literal>ON_ERROR</literal> is not specified or <literal>stop</literal>.
> > + This should not lead to problems in the event of a <command>COPY
> >
> > How about the followings for consistency with the description of the
> > ON_ERROR option?
> >
> > COPY stops operation at the first error if the stop value is specified
> > to the ON_ERROR option. This should not lead to ...
>
> Thank you for you review. However, after posting the previous patch,
> I noticed that I overlooked ON_ERROR works only for errors due to data
> type incompatibility (that is mentioned as "malformed data" in the
> ON_ERROR description, though).
Right.
>
> So, how about rewriting this like:
>
> COPY stops operation at the first error unless the error is due to data
> type incompatibility and a value other than stop is specified to the
> ON_ERROR option.
Hmm, this sentence seems not very readable to me, especially the "COPY
stops ... unless ... a value other than stop is specified ..." part. I
think we can simplify it:
COPY stops operation at the first data type incompatibility error if
the stop value is specified to the ON_ERROR option.
Regards,
--
Masahiko Sawada
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