Re:

You would need to use EXCEPTION, to trap the error.

Kind Regards,
Shaun Clements

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Poslusny [mailto:pajout(at)gingerall(dot)cz]
Sent: 08 February 2005 12:01 PM
To: Surabhi Ahuja
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL]

You can use savepoints in pg 8.0:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-savepoint.html

Surabhi Ahuja wrote:

> in a transaction i try to insert into a table1, followed by insert
> into table 2 then insert into table 3 and last insert into table 4.
> However if a unique key violation occurs in the table 1 , the whole
> trabnsaction aborts. is there no way , where i can ignore this
> violation, and continue with the remaining insertions.
> ?

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