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From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: VLDB Features
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:34:57 -0800
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Tom,

> I think such an approach is doomed to hopeless unreliability.  There is
> no concept of an error that doesn't require a transaction abort in the
> system now, and that doesn't seem to me like something that can be
> successfully bolted on after the fact.  Also, there's a lot of
> bookkeeping (eg buffer pins) that has to be cleaned up regardless of the
> exact nature of the error, and all those mechanisms are hung off
> transactions.

There's no way we can do a transactionless load, then?  I'm thinking of the 
load-into-new-partition which is a single pass/fail operation.  Would 
ignoring individual row errors in for this case still cause these kinds of 
problems?

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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