Re: BUG #5246: Misleading/inconsistent SQLSTATE behavior

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Chris Travers <chris(at)metatrontech(dot)com> writes:
>> trying again.  Sorry for the duplicate.
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Exactly what "frontend" are you talking about here?  Because what this
>>> sounds like to me is a client-side programming error.  It's certainly
>>> not the backend's fault, and I doubt it is libpq's either.
>
>> I am using DBD::Pg.
>
>> I asked about it on #postgresql and was told this was the SQLSTATE code
>> passed up from libpq (by the author of DBD::Pg).  Several other folks
>> there seemed to concur.
>
> Could you provide a self-contained test case?  And what versions of
> DBD::Pg etc are we talking about?

Just to weed out possibilities of DBD::Pg behavior causing this, I am
going to try to create a straight C test case. If I can't I will end
the perl scripts I was using to test.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

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>                        regards, tom lane
>