Return-Path: pg_adm@postgres.berkeley.edu Received: by postgres.Berkeley.EDU (5.61/1.29) id AA04913; Wed, 2 Jun 93 22:00:54 -0700 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 22:00:54 -0700 From: "David J. Hughes" Subject: Re: PQexec error handling To: postgres@postgres.berkeley.edu Sender: pg_adm@postgres.berkeley.edu To: James Woods 61-89-895256 Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU In-Reply-To: <9306030007.AA03392@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 2 Jun 1993, James Woods 61-89-895256 wrote: > This sounds like a great idea. How about (though this may take a while to > implement) after the "R" or "E" supplying an integer representing some sort of > error number which ties into a data structure of some sort which supplies more > information. Something which acts similar to the standard errno system. I > would guess the tedious part about this would be numbering and rationalising all > the error messages. Hmmm, I thought that was what PQerrormsg was for (ie. a textual representation of the error). If the setting of PQerrormsg was a little more uniform, we'd have a much more workable solution. > Well just a suggestion, and any improvement will be welcome. Ditto. bambi ___ David J. Hughes bambi@Bond.edu.au / \ / / / / __/ __ __ ____/ / / __ Senior Network Programmer / \ / \ / \ / / / / / \ / Comms Development & Operation \____/ \__// / \__/ \___/ / / / Qld. 4229 AUSTRALIA (+61 75 951450)