Re: Change COPY ... ON_ERROR ignore to ON_ERROR ignore_row

On 2024/10/21 18:30, Kirill Reshke wrote:
> v4 no longer applies. It now conflicts with
> e7834a1a251d4a28245377f383ff20a657ba8262.
> Also, there were review comments.
>
> So, I decided to rebase.

Thanks for the patch! Here are my review comments:

I noticed that on_error=set_to_null does not trigger NOTICE messages for rows
and columns with errors. It's "unexpected" thing for columns to be silently
replaced with NULL due to on_error=set_to_null. So, similar to on_error=ignore,
there should be NOTICE messages indicating which input records had columns
set to NULL because of data type incompatibility. Without these messages,
users might not realize that some columns were set to NULL.

How should on_error=set_to_null behave when reject_limit is set? It seems
intuitive to trigger an error if the number of rows with columns' data type
issues exceeds reject_limit, similar to on_error=ignore. This is open to discussion.

psql's tab-completion should be updated to include SET_TO_NULL.

An <replaceable class="parameter">error_action</replaceable> value of
<literal>stop</literal> means fail the command, while
<literal>ignore</literal> means discard the input row and continue with the next one.
+ <literal>set_to_null</literal> means the input value will be set to <literal>null</literal> and continue with the next one.

How about merging these two descriptions to one and updating it to the following?

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An error_action value of stop means fail the command, ignore means discard the input
row and continue with the next one, and set_to_null means replace columns with invalid
input values with NULL and move to the next row.
-------------------

The <literal>ignore</literal> option is applicable only for <command>COPY FROM</command>

This should be "... ignore and set_to_null options are ..."?

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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