[Babase] Dupe Cenids in DEMOG

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:44:22 -0400


Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> Nope, there are no validation programs.  All the validation is built-in
> and automatic.  Doing this is where a lot of my time has been going
> as I've wanted it done before converting.
> 
> The update programs will use transactions, which you can use too.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/tutorial-transactions.html
> With transactions if you get one error then none of the changes
> get made.  Then you fix the error and try all the changes again
> in another transaction.

Yay - I get it!!  Thanks so much for all that explaining - I think it 
finally makes sense!

Catherine