Re: parsing mysql error messages

Dave Howorth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.perl
Organization MRC Centre for Protein Engineering
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> Dave Howorth wrote:
> 
>> But the detailed information, which users want and which my attempt at 
>> automatic recovery needs, is buried in the MySQL mysql_error string, 
>> AFAIK. So it seems like I need to parse that and I can't believe I'm 
>> the first to want to do it :)
> 
> Nonsense, check $dbh->err or $dbh->state (same for $sth). They should 
> contain the error code as a number.

It's not the error code I'm looking for. It's details such as which 
field(s) failed a UNIQUE constraint, for example.

Thanks, Dave


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