NOT NULL violation and error-message

From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak(at)officenet(dot)no>
To: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: NOT NULL violation and error-message
Date: 2010-01-08 21:55:00
Message-ID: 201001082255.00602.andreak@officenet.no
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Hi all, when trying to insert/update a NOT NULL column with a null-values (in this case the "created"-column), we get this error:

ERROR: null value in column "created" violates not-null constraint

Using JDBC this error-message is what appears in the SQLException.getMessage() which makes it impossible to tell which table the NOT_NULL_VIOLATION happened in. This can be a real pain as this might happen upon transaction-commit using OR-tools like Hibernate. The transaction might involve updating several tables with the same column-name rendering it impossible to extract what the error really is from the error-message. Is there a way to prefix the column-name in the error-message with table-name and maybe also schema-name? The message would then instead read something like:

ERROR: null value in column "public"."mytable"."created" violates not-null constraint

Oracle does this btw...

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