John McKown wrote:
> I'm likely abusing the psql program. What I have is an awk program which 
> reads a file and produces a
> number of INSERT INTO commands. I then feed these commands into psql to 
> execute them. Yes, a Perl
> program would be a better idea. Anyway, sometimes the commands are rejected 
> due to some problem, such
> as duplicate primary key. What I wish is that the psql command had a switch, 
> or control command, which
> would say "exit from psql if anything fails". To me, this is like the BASH 
> "set -e" command for a
> shell script. Does this sound like a useful addition. Or am I just missing 
> where it already exists?

Did you try "psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=on"?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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