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

[Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>]

Added to TODO:

        o Add SQLSTATE severity to PGconn return status

          http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2007-11/msg00015.php

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Tom Lane wrote:
> 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
> 
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