Re: How to implement the skip errors for copy from ?

Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2014-06-16 11:46 GMT+02:00 xbzhang <xbzhang@kingbase.com.cn>:
> 
> >
> > I want to implement the skip errors for copy from,lik as :
> > create table A (c int primary key);
> > copy A from stdin;
> > 1
> > 1
> > 2
> > \.
> >
> > copy will failed:
> > ERROR: duplicate key violates primary key constraint "CC_PKEY"
> > CONTEXT: COPY CC, line 2: "1"
> >
> > I want skip the error, and continue to copy the reset of tuple. The result
> > will be that there are two rows in table A: 1 and 2.
> >
> > how to implement that ? Anybody give me some suggestion?
> 
> you should to reimplement a copy procedure to use a subtransactions. Using
> subtransaction for any row is too expensive, but you can do subtransaction
> per 1000 rows, and when some exception is raised, then store data per one
> row/one subtransaction.

See http://pgloader.io/ for a ready-made solution.

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