Re: COPY enhancements

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Emmanuel Cecchet <manu@asterdata.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think there is a misunderstanding about what the current patch is about.
> The patch includes 2 things:
> - error logging in a table for bad tuples in a COPY operation (see
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Error_logging_in_COPY for an example; the
> error message, command and so on are automatically logged)
> - auto-partitioning in a hierarchy of child table if the COPY targets a
> parent table.
> The patch does NOT include:
> - logging errors into a file (a feature we can add later on (next commit
> fest?))

My failure to have read the patch is showing here, but it seems to me
that error logging to a table could be problematic: if the transaction
aborts, we'll lose the log.  If this is in fact a problem, we should
be implementing logging to a file (or stdout) FIRST.

...Robert