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From: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:33:04 +0500
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Subject: Re: Change COPY ... ON_ERROR ignore to ON_ERROR ignore_row
To: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>, Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>, 
	"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>, 
	torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>, 
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 at 13:52, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 5:55=E2=80=AFPM Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail=
.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am attaching my v8 for reference.
> >
>
> in your v8.
>
>    <varlistentry>
>     <term><literal>REJECT_LIMIT</literal></term>
>     <listitem>
>      <para>
>       Specifies the maximum number of errors tolerated while converting a
>       column's input value to its data type, when <literal>ON_ERROR</lite=
ral> is
>       set to <literal>ignore</literal>.
>       If the input contains more erroneous rows than the specified
> value, the <command>COPY</command>
>       command fails, even with <literal>ON_ERROR</literal> set to
> <literal>ignore</literal>.
>      </para>
>     </listitem>
>    </varlistentry>
>
> then above description not meet with following example, (i think)
>
> create table t(a int not null);
> COPY t FROM STDIN WITH (on_error set_to_null, reject_limit 2);
> Enter data to be copied followed by a newline.
> End with a backslash and a period on a line by itself, or an EOF signal.
> >> a
> >> \.
> ERROR:  null value in column "a" of relation "t" violates not-null constr=
aint
> DETAIL:  Failing row contains (null).
> CONTEXT:  COPY t, line 1, column a: "a"
>
> Overall, I think
> making the domain not-null align with column level not-null would be a
> good thing.
>
>
>      <para>
>       Specifies how to behave when encountering an error converting a col=
umn's
>       input value into its data type.
>       An <replaceable class=3D"parameter">error_action</replaceable> valu=
e of
>       <literal>stop</literal> means fail the command,
>       <literal>ignore</literal> means discard the input row and
> continue with the next one, and
>       <literal>set_to_null</literal> means replace columns containing
> erroneous input values with <literal>null</literal> and move to the
> next row.
>
> "and move to the next row" is wrong?
> I think it should be " and move to the next field".

Hi! There is not too much time left in this CF, so I moved to the next one.
If you are going to work on this patch, I'm waiting on your feedback
or a v9 patch that answers the issues brought up in this discussion.

--=20
Best regards,
Kirill Reshke