After wrestling to get everything set up with 4.1, it looks like it still does not 
give the VITAL information of what problems were encountered in data loads (on 4.1 
2/25/03) -
 mysql> load data infile '/Users/jason/Desktop/Hoodata/National1-subset.tab' into 
table tri;
 Query OK, 91515 rows affected (3.27 sec)
 Records: 91515  Deleted: 0  Skipped: 0  Warnings: 5559
 
 mysql> show warnings;
 Empty set (0.00 sec)
 
 mysql> show errors;
 Empty set (0.00 sec)
 
When will this ever be fixed?  I do not know a SINGLE MySQL DBA who has not cursed 
this lacking as a fundamental design flaw.  Not a 'wouldn't it be nice' feature, but a 
'oh my god, you must be kidding me' kind of problem..  It continues to make DBAs lives 
difficult.  Even Oracle got this one right.

The periodic suggestion of just 'select'ing into an outfile and comparing doesn't work 
too well for most folks who are dealing with text fields that may have had trailing 
spaces, dates in other formats, decimal/float numbers that may be displayed 
differently, etc.  It is truly a nightmare that seems to never be resolved.

Is this on track for MySQL 2020, or should I just give up and learn to love Oracle and 
SQL-Plus?

Jason.

p.s. - I am not an ungrateful user of Open Source.  For years I was a paying MySQL 
customer and felt confident that this issue would be resolved (since it was on the 
'Things That Must be Done in the Near Future' list), but three or four years later it 
is still there.


---------------------------------------------------------------------
Before posting, please check:
   http://www.mysql.com/manual.php   (the manual)
   http://lists.mysql.com/           (the list archive)

To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php

Reply via email to