Re: skip duplicate key error during inserts

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That doesn't help at all during multi-table transactions or
bulk-loads where you want the loader to kick duplicates out to an
exception file.

On 10/27/06 04:41, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
>> If you are using psql, I'd recommend using '\set ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK on'.
[snip]
> The generalized version of this issue (transaction totally fails on
> any error) is extremely painful.
>
> Most RDBMSs (well, ok, the other RDBMSs that *I* have worked with)
> don't do that, and there's a lot of code written in the form:
>
>   INSERT INTO ...
>   IF PK-ERROR THEN
>      UPDATE
>   END-IF.

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