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 -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Vick Khera Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:21 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org 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 <mary.y.w...@boeing.com> 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. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
