Transactions are atomic. What you are asking to do violates the whole concept of a transaction.
You can, however, do these inserts outside of the transaction block. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Ochs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 7:52 AM Subject: [GENERAL] problems with transaction blocks > I want to do a series of inserts within a single transaction block, but with > postgresql if one insert fails, the whole block is aborted. Is there any > way to get around this behavior so that postgresql won't abort the entire > transaction if a single insert returns an error? > > Chris > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html