On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Saravanan Nagarajan <n.saravana...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Hi , > > I am using "Copy From" while dumping bulk data into PGSQL DB from file. > While I am trying to insert the rows, if the primary key already exists, > the complete transaction terminated. > > Postgres cannot handle the constraint violations , i found it into > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/COPY#Caveats_with_implementation . > > Is there any possible way to insert bulk data using "Copy From" with > REPLACE/IGNORE duplicates. > > Did you look at http://pgbulkload.projects.pgfoundry.org/pg_bulkload.html ? That advertises to have the features that you are looking for. I would expect pg_bulkload to also perform equal if not better than COPY command. Thanks, Pavan