Re: no error numbers - only error messages?

Sander Roobol wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having the following problem:
> I'm talking to PostGreSQL using a variety of bindings (libpq, PHP), all
> non-interactive.
> If something goes wrong with one of my queries, I can ask PostGreSQL
> to give an errormessage.
> Unfortunately, errormessages are hard to parse. MySQL for example, works
> around that problem by providing an error number on request, but as far
> as I know, PostGreSQL doesn't.
>
> Did I overlook something or does PostGreSQL really have no error
> numbers? If not, is there any way I reliably parse the error messages?

No, we don't have error numbers.  7.3 will have more error tags,
adding NOTICE and INFO, and a few others.

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