On 2010-12-31, Håvard Wahl Kongsgård <haavard.kongsgaard@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
> I am trying to insert new records from multiple SQL dumps into an existing
> table. My problem is that the database table does not have some of the
> columns used in the sql dumps. So when I try to import the dumps psql fails
> with: "ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end o=
> f
> transaction block"
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> As there are thousands of files with multiple missing fields, manually
> adding every field to the table is not a option.
In that case you'll need to do that automatically (write some software),
or find some other way to load the data.
> Is it possible to overriding the default psql behavior, so that the sql
> session simply ignores any missing fields?
no.
Perhaps load the tables into a temporary database and then copy the
columns you want, or drop the columns you dont and dump the whole
thing...
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