At 13:44 -0500 10/13/03, dan orlic wrote:
How, in a sql script, do I gracefully fail an insert? For example, I
insert a record that has an primary key of 1, and it already exists. I
want my script to
Move down to the next record, not fail out. Thanks!
If you're executing the script with the
# if using perl and DBI pseudo code
die $ERROR if ($dbh-errstr() $dbh-errstr() !~ /Duplicate Error/);
If $dbh-errstr() =~ /Duplicate Error/
do your specified logic
Else
Return inserted id
- Dathan Vance Pattishall
- Sr. Programmer and mySQL DBA for FriendFinder Inc.
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