Thank you for your response. I understand that stored procedures and triggers are very much new to MySQL. In fact, this has been an eagerly awaited feature by my management as a means to remove our dependence on that budget eater (Oracle) (and myself for personal projects). I was hoping that I just wasn't finding the right place in the documentation, or that someone else had already encountered this requirement in MySQL 5.0.
I will take that as confirmation that what we need is not (yet?) in MySQL. With that in mind, I can see if I'm able to come up with a workaround or if I need to shelve these particular lines of code (comment them out in the MySQL version for now), and revisit it with each beta release. On a side note, what they've done so far is great! This is something, even in it's current functionality, that I see scores of use for. For hopefully obvious reasons, I don't use Oracle for personal projects, so triggers are a feature I've longed for in MySQL. Dan. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:16 PM To: Burke, Dan Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Trigger exception handling > insert into accounts (ACCOUNT_NUM) values ('123 456'); > ... insert should fail in this instance, irrespective of any other > constraints like not-null/unique fields, etc. > <snip> No, what you want to do isn't "rare", it's "new" to MySQL. Stored procedures and triggers are both new to MySQL 5.0 and may not be mature enough to do what you are asking of them, yet. It took several point updates to the beta code for triggers to even be able to work with other tables. As was mentioned before, there is not yet a "raise error" equivalent in the procedural SQL of MySQL. This, too, is new for 5.0. I look at it this way, you are one of the pioneering users in this area. What you discover and work out will benefit the rest of us and will demonstrate to the developers just how much they have left to do to make triggers a mature and useful feature. Best Wishes, Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine ________________________________ _______________________________________________________ This message has been scanned for viruses by TechTeam's email gateway. _________________________________________________ This e-mail transmission is strictly confidential and intended solely for the person or organization to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender as soon as possible and delete the e-mail message and any attachment(s). This message has been scanned for viruses by TechTeam's email gateway.
