How can I stop a Postgres script when it encounters an error?

Question

Is there a way to specify that when executing a sql script it stops when encountering the first error on the script, it usually continues, regardless of previous errors.

Answer 1

It's not exactly what you want, but if you start your script with begin transaction; and end with end transaction;, it will actually skip everything after the first error, and then it will rollback everything it did before the error.