On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:57:09AM -0400, Matt Van Mater wrote:
> Also, I forgot to mention earlier that I tried using transactions to
> speed things up, but since I expect to see certain inserts fail I
> would need to rework my code so the whole transaction doesn't fail if
> one insert goes bad. This is somewhat contrary to the purpose of
> transactions so I'm not sure how to accomplish this.
Try the pgloader project at pgfoundry. It tries to insert all rows
using COPY and the rejected ones go to a file, using something akin to
binary search. It may be of some use. I haven't tried it so I'm not
sure of its maturity. Let us know how it goes if you try it!
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Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
"And as an added bonus, now my computer goes to the toilet for me, leaving me
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