Re: PQputCopyData dont signal error

On 03/31/2014 10:18 AM, steve k wrote:
> <http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/file/n5798002/PG_man_excerpt.png>
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> These were my results:
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> <http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/file/n5798002/PG_embedded_copy_log_excerpt.png>
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> I'd advise anyone contemplating using this feature to seriously seriously
> seriously test this and examine your logs after each test run before you
> move this feature into your baseline. Maybe you'll have better luck than I
> did.

You appear not to have understood what you have been told. Specifically
Tom Lane's remarks:

> PQputCopyData/PQputCopyEnd are only concerned with transferring data.
> After you're done with that, you should call PQgetResult to find out the
> COPY command's completion status. You should get PGRES_COMMAND_OK,
> otherwise it'll be an error result.

Neither of these is supposed to return -1 if there's a COPY error, only
if there's a data transfer error.

Plenty of people have made this work just fine.

cheers

andrew