On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Ivan Bojer<ibojer(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a table with UNIQUE constraint on the column. Inserting 2 of
> same values on it fails (as it should)
> and I can see DBLog Error message. Alas, there is no exception thrown
> from JDBC so that I can properly
> handle it.
This is from memory, so if I talk nonsense, I hope somebody corrects me.
The exception thrown should be a SQLException. These have a
"getSQLState" method which returns a string. If this string is
"23505", you have a UNIQUE violation.
You can see the possible error codes here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/errcodes-appendix.html