Continuing a transaction after primary key violation error

Question

I am doing a bulk insert of records into a database from a log file. Occasionally (~1 row out of every thousand) one of the rows violates the primary key and causes the tran

Answer 1

I would use a stored procedure to catch the exceptions on your unique violations. Example:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_insert(i_foo text, i_bar text)
  RETURNS boolean LANGUAGE plpgsql AS
$BODY$
begin   
    insert into foo(x, y) values(i_foo, i_bar);
    exception
        when unique_violation THEN -- nothing

    return true;
end;
$BODY$;

SELECT my_insert('value 1','another value');