Re: Skipping errors when running scripts

John Gardner <john(dot)gardner(at)tagish(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> For instance, when I run a script in SQL Server, and it comes across a
> problem e.g. It tries to drop a table that doesn't exist, it will notify
> me of the error, and then continue on. With PostgreSQL (or at least
> running scripts in pgAdmin III) the script runs, comes across the error
> and then rolls back to before the script was run.

It sounds like you're running the script as a single transaction (ie,
inside a begin/commit block). Don't do that if you don't want rollback.

I don't know pgAdmin well enough to know how to adjust its behavior
for running scripts, but there's probably a knob someplace. Or use
plain psql.

regards, tom lane