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Re: Avoid transaction abot if/when constraint violated

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On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 15:12 -0700, Gauthier, Dave wrote:
> Hello !
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> I have a long list of records I want to insert into a table in such a
> way as I can trap and report any/all constraint violations before
> rolling back (or opting to commit).  Unfortunately, after I hit the
> first constraint violation, it aborts the transaction, and then
> reports “ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until
> end of transaction block”.
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>  
> 
> Is there a way around this?

Only if it is a foreign key issue in which case you can defer the check.

If it is a single transaction, and you insert a bad record the whole
transaction fails.

Joshua D. Drake


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> Thanks in Advance!
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