Re: Fixing SQLException error codes. - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

Barry Lind wrote:

> No, the backend does not have proper error codes.  See the TODO list
> item "Allow elog() to return error codes, module name, file name, line
> number, not just messages (Peter E) [elog]"
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/todo.html)
>
> It doesn't make sense to do this in JDBC until the server first supports
> error codes.  If you want to contribute, it would be best to help
> getting this into the core server so that all interfaces, not just JDBC
> can take advantage of it.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
> PS. I agree this would be nice to have in core as well as JDBC.
>
>
> Martin Algesten wrote:
>
>> Well yeah... that is the question.. Does the backend have standardised
>> error
>> codes... I hoped someone could point me in the right direction before
>> I do
>> anything that isn't useful in the long run.
>>
>> M
>>
>> On 24/6/01 11:16, "Joe Shevland" <J.Shevland@eclipsegroup.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> This would be a very handy feature, Oracle's JDBC implementation does
>>> this
>>> and it makes it nice and easy to produce descriptive error messages
>>> for the
>>> end user (among other things).
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if there are standard error codes returned by the
>>> backend or
>>> whether you need to create new ones. I can't see there being any problem
>>> with it though. I've got a few links to the Oracle JDBC error codes
>>> if you
>>> want a reference.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Martin Algesten [mailto:martin@taglab.com]
>>>> Sent: Sunday, 24 June 2001 7:41 PM
>>>> To: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
>>>> Subject: [JDBC] Fixing SQLException error codes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> I would like to have the problem with the getErrorCode in SQLException
>>>> always returning 0 fixed. So I figured, why don't do it
>>>> myself? ... Just tot
>>>> check before I start looking at it...
>>>>
>>>> Has there been any attempt fixing it? Are someone doing it
>>>> anyway? Are there
>>>> any known problems with doing it?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
>>>>
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