Re: extended error codes in the JDBC driver

Fairly long-standing request this one, to get errno() or something similar to report an error code back to the client interfaces.

I agree, its critically important because you can't determine things in the (fe) code based on parsing an error message (well you can, but its stupid to rely on this). It does require changes in the backend, and I guess probably not insignificant, as anywhere it previously threw an error the code'd need to be changed to use an integer constant or similar, plus creating all the error codes etc (well maybe just editing one function call ;). Still, the only driver I've used that behaved well in this fashion was the Oracle one, and it made a really nice difference to developing.

Regards,
Joe

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Marin Dimitrov
> Sent: Friday, 10 May 2002 3:01
> Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] extended error codes in the JDBC driver
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Lind"
>
> > Could you please define what you mean by 'extended error code
> reporting'?
> >
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> I guess an error code <> 0, which will be a problem since it's related to
> the backend, not the jdbc driver
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> best,
>
> Marin
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