Hi,
with Oracle I have the ability to tell the system to log errors during a long transaction into a separate table and proceed with the statement. This is quite handy when updating large tables and the update for one out of a million rows fails.
The syntax is something like this:
UPDATE
LOG
Neiter LOG ERRORS nor REJECT LIMIT are implemented in PostgreSQL,
though I agree they may be useful. Both can be simulated with a custom
stored procedure which loops over a cursor and updates row-by-row,
trapping errors along the way. This will, of course, be slower.
regards,
Ivan Pavlov
On Dec
