on 5/4/05 7:22 PM, Paul DuBois at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 19:09 -0700 5/4/05, Scott Haneda wrote: >> I have a unique key on username and email address in mysql. In my >> application logic, I want to test for that response on failed insert. Error >> number 1062 tells me there is a duplicate key, but no way to tell what key >> that is. >> >> The error string returned is more telling, but seems less than ideal to use >> for stability and upgrade issues. It tells me username is key 2 and email >> is key 3. >> >> So, if error_string ends with 'key 2' etc etc >> I took care to lowercase the error string, so that's covered. >> >> What is not, is that it may not always 'ends with', so I could move to >> 'contains'. >> >> Anyway, I think you see what my concern is, wonder what the preferred method >> to fix is, or if someone can tell me when, if ever, the error string has >> ever changed format in mysql. > > Error strings do change format sometimes. > > And they won't necessarily be in English. :-)
I had a feeling, what is the general method most use to deal with the above scenario? I really don't want to test error strings every time I update mysql, I suppose the safe road is to hand select ahead of time? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
