That's good to know.  I ended up manually copy/paste INSERT statements for each 
table to another file and rerun the psql -f again.  It was painful!  

Mary
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From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vick Khera
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Does psql -f quit insertion after an error in a 
statement has been detected?

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Wang, Mary Y <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using a psql -f command to reload the data from a dump file.  I noticed 
> that some tables are not populated with any rows (I mean 0 rows), yet, if I 
> manually insert a row (actually just copy an INSERT statement from that input 
> file) in the interactive terminal, that row was added with no problem.  So my 
> question "does psql -f quits inserting rows for a table when it detects there 
> is an error in a statement?".  The impression that I got is that even though 
> other rows might not have any errors, but psql -f seems just quits after it 
> detects an error in a row.
>

See the psql man page, and search for "ON_ERROR_STOP". This controls this 
behavior.

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