Re: COPY enhancements

Tom Lane wrote:
> Emmanuel Cecchet <manu@frogthinker.org> writes:
>   
>> - speed with error logging best effort: no use of sub-transactions but 
>> errors that can safely be trapped with pg_try/catch (no index violation, 
>>     
>
> There aren't any.  You can *not* put a try/catch around arbitrary code
> without a subtransaction.  Don't even think about it.
>   
Well then why the tests provided with the patch are working?
I hear you when you say that it is not a generally applicable idea, but 
it seems that at least a couple of errors can be trapped with this 
mechanism.

Emmanuel

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Emmanuel Cecchet
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