Re: psql \copy command runs as a transcation?

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:41 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com> writes:
> > Does the psql's \copy command run as a transaction?
>
> Certainly.
>
> > I think it does, but
> > somehow when I cancel (in a script) a running import, "seems" (I can't
> > seem to duplicate it on the cli though) like a few lines/rows gets
> > inserted anyway..
>
> Hmm. Some client-side software is written to split an import into
> multiple short copy commands, but I don't believe there's any such thing
> in psql. Are you sure those rows didn't come from someplace else?

nope.. the software is actually a perl script which does a system('psql
-U -d -c "\copy"') command.

Again... I've not been able to duplicate it yet.. so I was just asking
here to confirm correct behaviour of \copy.

Thanks