BUG #1655: trapping errors doesn't work - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Emanuel Brokmann
Subject BUG #1655: trapping errors doesn't work
Date
Msg-id 20050509161402.2910BF0B00@svr2.postgresql.org
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Responses Re: BUG #1655: trapping errors doesn't work  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      1655
Logged by:          Emanuel Brokmann
Email address:      brokmann.emanuel@ava.de
PostgreSQL version: 8.0
Operating system:   Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-42
Description:        trapping errors doesn't work
Details:

while executing:

>>BEGIN
>>  insert into comlineprintboxen VALUES(109, '', '', '', >>'', '');
>>EXCEPTION
>>  WHEN unique_violation then
>>    UPDATE comlineprintboxen SET verteiler='', >>panel='', dose='',
switch='', port='' WHERE >>printboxid=109
>>END;

the following error occurs:

>>ERROR:  syntax error at or near "UPDATE" at character 8

i compared the command with the one from page 550 ff of the documentation,
but can't find differences.


Would be kind of you to help me


Emanuel Brokmann

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