On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 01:05:32PM -0600, Sami Imseih wrote:
>> Instead of throwing an error, how about we turn that into a warning?
>> This way, if someone is batch-importing data for multiple tables, it won´t interrupt their script that generates a
COPYfor each table.
>> Is it better to give them a heads-up without making them modify their commands right away?
>
> Hmm, I prefer we error out the transaction as it can be difficult
> to detect a warning and the user will assume that the
> transaction completed. Also, we currently error out when
> copy freeze is on a parent partition, so I rather we keep
> this behavior consistent.
Yeah, I'd rather error out than expect users to respond to warnings to the
effect of "hey, you told us to do something, but we did something else that
isn't what you asked us to do." That both retains the broken feature and
adds more noise, neither of which seems desirable.
--
nathan
