From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Practical error logging for very large COPY |
Date: | 2005-11-22 15:45:50 |
Message-ID: | 11766.1132674350@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:58:44AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The general problem that needs to be solved is "trap any error that
>> occurs during attempted insertion of a COPY row, and instead of aborting
>> the copy, record the data and the error message someplace else".
> Actually, there are really only a few errors people want to trap I
> imagine:
You've forgotten bad data, eg "foo" in an integer field, or an
untranslatable multibyte character. The bad-data problem is what lets
out trigger-based solutions, or indeed anything that presumes that the
bad data can be forced into a particular representation.
regards, tom lane
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