Is there a "better" way to test for duplicate rows than by first do a select to see if the key already exists? Henry D.
Rene Pijlman wrote: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:33:07 -0700, you wrote: > >I'm used to just doing the insert and catching the SQLCODE -803 > >on DB2 to know that the row I'm trying to insert already exists. > > > >Is there an easy way to do this using Postgresql and JDBC? > > I'm afraid not. > > "SQLException.getErrorCode() always returns 0. The PostgreSQL > backend currently doesn't provide error codes. This issue is on > the TODO list (Admin: 'Allow elog() to return error codes'). > Once it is fixed in the backend and the FE/BE protocol, it can > be fixed in the JDBC driver as well." > http://lab.applinet.nl/postgresql-jdbc/#SQLException > > Regards, > René Pijlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
