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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 08:09:04 -0700
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Sandeep Khandelwal <sandeep_khandelwal27@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PQputCopyData and Rollback/Commit
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:32:21PM -0800, Sandeep Khandelwal wrote:
> I am using PQputCopyData function to send data to server one row at
> a time. When I am done with the data then I call PQputCopyEnd.
> 
> I want to do rollback when any error occurs. Please help me how
> to achieve rollback using these functions.

As the documentation for PQputCopyEnd() says, you can pass a non-NULL
second argument to force the copy to fail.  You could also use PQexec()
to execute a BEGIN before the copy and a COMMIT or ROLLBACK after the
copy.

-- 
Michael Fuhr