Re: Skip dups on INSERT instead of generating an error ...

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> I need to be able to run an INSERT INTO / SELECT FROM UNION which combines
> two tables into one ... *but* ... the INTO table has a primary key on the
> first column, so if the result of the UNION generates dups, by default, of
> course, it will generate errors ... what I'd like is to have it so that it
> just skips over those records.
>
> First thought would be to write a quite plpgsql function that would do a
> SELECT first, to see if the value already exists, and if not, then do the
> INSERT ... but am wondering if maybe there is a cleaner way that I'm not
> thinking of?

I thought unions, by definition, couldn't create dups, unless you used the
all keyword... OR do you just mean that you have dup pks, not the whole
row?