Re: Catching unique_violation exception on specific column/index

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe(at)nsu(dot)ru>
To: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Catching unique_violation exception on specific column/index
Date: 2018-06-11 10:58:34
Message-ID: 20180611105834.GA47390@regency.nsu.ru
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:30:13PM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev schrieb am 11.06.2018 um 12:10:
> > I have a table with several UNIQUE and CHECK constraints. One of these
> > UNIQUE constraints actually *can* be violated -- not on the table level,
> > of course, but on the application level -- meaning, if the entry with
> > particular foo_key is already in there, do not throw an exception, just
> > silently do nothing.
>
> What's wrong with:
>
> INSERT ...
> ON CONFLICT (foo_key) DO NOTHING

Nothing I guess, except that it is available since 9.5 (right?), and I try
to stay compatible with 9.3. Sorry for not saying this in the first place.

./danfe

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