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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Big script execution
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:31:51 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
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On Mon, 2025-03-10 at 16:42 -0500, Igor Korot wrote:
> I am trying to execute a huge script (~40K lines) that will populate
> my database.
> 
> The script starts with "BEGIN TRANSACTION" and will end
> with "COMMIT".
> 
> however I'd like to rollback if there is an error encounter.
> 
> When I execute it from the Terminal I do use
> 
> -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1
> 
> but I'd like to rolback the transaction so it starts a fresh every time.
> 
> Is there some kind of
> 
> ON ERROR ROLLBACK
> 
> command I can put inside the script?

That happens automatically: if you are running the whole script in a
single transaction, any error will make the whole transaction roll back.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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