PostgreSQL Administration - COPY command and skipping errors

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COPY command and skipping errors

Tomeh, Husam

2005-09-22, 8:24 pm

Is there a way to skip errors during the run of the COPY command
(loading data from a file to a table) like what Oracle SQL*Loader has?
The reason I'm asking is that if the extract file from the mainframe has
an invalid character, the COPY terminates and doesn't continue loading
the rest of records.

Thanks,

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Bruce Momjian

2005-09-22, 8:24 pm

Tomeh, Husam wrote:
>
> Is there a way to skip errors during the run of the COPY command
> (loading data from a file to a table) like what Oracle SQL*Loader has?
> The reason I'm asking is that if the extract file from the mainframe has
> an invalid character, the COPY terminates and doesn't continue loading
> the rest of records.

No, but it is on the TODO list:

o Allow COPY to report error lines and continue

This requires the use of a savepoint before each COPY line is
processed, with ROLLBACK on COPY failure.

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Alvaro Herrera

2005-09-22, 8:24 pm

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:41:57PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tomeh, Husam wrote:
>
> No, but it is on the TODO list:

Also, I think PGLoader can do this. It's on pgfoundry.org.

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