>>My situation is that I'm reading data from an external website with lots
of duplicate data. I am reading the data in a plpythonu function. I never
update, only insert. A trigger on the table that has to check if each row
exists before trying the insert is too much overhead.
Create a staging tabl
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:36 +0300, Sim Zacks wrote:
> Is there a way to tell a table to discard an insert if it violates a
> constraint (unique in my case) instead of giving an error? I don't want
> the overhead of a trigger on each row inserted.
>
Without a trigger, you can't.
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Guillaume
Is there a way to tell a table to discard an insert if it violates a
constraint (unique in my case) instead of giving an error? I don't want
the overhead of a trigger on each row inserted.
My situation is that I'm reading data from an external website with lots
of duplicate data. I am reading
