Re: jdbc xa patches

Michael Allman wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Oliver Jowett wrote:
>
>> More generally: can we get XAExceptions thrown with useful messages? It
>> seems like there's no direct constructor that gives you both message and
>> error code, but the error code is a public field so you can set it after
>> construction before throwing.

> Since the client of a PGXAResource instance is a transaction manager I
> see no benefit.  The transaction manager will make a decision on what to
> do based on the code carried by XAException and carry on.  Maybe it will
> log a message.

I absolutely disagree with there being no benefit. We should provide as
much information as possible in the exception. All hhe TM *has* to log
is the exception we give it, really, so that better have all the
information we can give about any underlying problems.

-O