Flavio Palumbo wrote:
> I developed a little tool in Java that updates databases throught text
> files.
> 
> In this tool there is an option that allows the user accepts a defined
> amount of errors and save the well formed data.
> 
> To do this I start commitment control when the process begins 
> and, at the
> end, if the thershold is not reached or there are no errors I 
> commit data,
> else rollback.
> 
> I tested this tool under MySql and Oracle and everything went 
> as expected.
> 
> Unfortunately postgres seems to work in a different way, 
> cause if there is
> just one error while the transaction is active I'm not able 
> to commit the
> well formed data in the db, no matter if the good records 
> were inserted
> sooner or later the error.
> 
> Does this behavior appears right for postgres ?
> 
> There is any way or workaround to achieve my goal ?

You use savepoints for this:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/tutorial-transactions.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-savepoint.html

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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