On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Cristi Petrescu-Prahova wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to insert a bunch of rows in a table in a transaction. Some of
> the insertions will fail due to constraints violation. When this happens,
> Postgres automatically ends the transaction and rolls back all the previous
> inserts. I would like to continue the transaction and issue the
> commit/rollback command myself.
>
> How to do it?
> Is there any setting I am missing?
> Is it possible at all?
Currently, postgres treats all errors as critical ones that require a
complete rollback of transaction (although I believe it does not
immediately do the rollback, it should go into abort state). There's been
on and off talk about changing this, but nothing really has been decided i
believe.