Re: v8.1: Error severity on libpq PGconn*

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Jeffrey Brendecke <yakhki(at)yahoo(dot)de> writes:
> Is there a recommended way to get the error severity (ERROR vs. FATAL vs. PANIC, etc.) off a PGconn* as there is for a PGresult* using PQresultErrorField()?
> For example, when I pass in a non-existent database name when creating a connection, I get the following message:

> FATAL:  database "xxxxxx" does not exist

What you're really wishing here is that errors generated within libpq
itself had SQLSTATE and other decoration.  They don't :-(.  Improving
this is on the to-do list, but someone is going to have to sit down and
do several days/weeks of hard and mostly-boring work to make it happen.
Do you want to volunteer?

			regards, tom lane