On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Sabin Coanda
<sabin.coanda@deuromedia.ro> wrote:
>> long running transactions can be evil. is there a reason why this has
>> to run in a single transaction?
>
> This single transaction is used to import new information in a database. I
> need it because the database cannot be disconected from the users, and the
> whole new data has to be consistently. There are different constraints that
> are checked during the import.
have you considered importing to a temporary 'holding' table with
copy, then doing 'big' sql statements on it to check constraints, etc?
merlin