Thanks a lot. Now that I've read your message,
I wonder why I was asking something trivial.
Christoph
> > In a C application I want to run several
> > insert commands within a chained transaction
> > (for faster execution).
> > >From time to time there will be an insert command
> > causing an
> > ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into a unique index
> >
> > As a result, the whole transaction is aborted and all
> > the previous inserts are lost.
> > Is there any way to preserve the data
> > except working with "autocommit" ?
> > What I have in mind particularly is something like
> > "Do not abort on duplicate key error".
>
> Simply select by the key you want to enter. If you get 100 an insert is ok,
> otherwise do an update. Oracle has a feature called 'insert or update' which
> follows this strategy. There also was some talk on this list about
> implementing this, but I don't remember the conclusion.
>
> BTW: I strongly recommend staying away from autocommit. You cannot
> control/know whether/when you started a new transaction.
>
> Christof
>
> PS: I would love to have nested transactions, too. But no time to spare ...
> Perhaps somebody does this for 7.3?
>