Re: error code invalid_input_syntax - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: error code invalid_input_syntax
Date
Msg-id 5380.1137081949@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to error code invalid_input_syntax  (Rainer Leo <leo@workfile.de>)
List pgsql-sql
Rainer Leo <leo@workfile.de> writes:
> Now I want to catch
> ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "i"
> but although I tried quite a few I can't find the right
> error code for this exception.

Crank up the error reporting verbosity.  For instance, in psql

regression=# select 'i'::integer;
ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "i"
regression=# \set VERBOSITY verbose
regression=# select 'i'::integer;
ERROR:  22P02: invalid input syntax for integer: "i"
LOCATION:  pg_atoi, numutils.c:84
regression=#

A look in Appendix A of the manual shows that 22P02 is
INVALID TEXT REPRESENTATION

            regards, tom lane


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