Re: Portable interpretation of jdbc SQLException for SERIALIZABLE

FYI, additional testing with the software revs indicated below
reveals that the SQLException SQLState is null, and the vendor specific
error code is zero.
That seems to leave me stuck with interpreting the exception string
content (ugh!)
unless someone has additional information.

Dave Tenny wrote:

> I'm getting the following /expected/ exception:
>
> java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: Can't serialize access due to
> concurrent update
>
> at org.postgresql.core.QueryExecutor.execute(QueryExecutor.java:131)
> at
> org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Connection.ExecSQL(AbstractJdbc1Connection.java:505)
>
> at
> org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc1Statement.java:320)
>
> at
> org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:48)
>
> at
> org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Statement.executeUpdate(AbstractJdbc1Statement.java:197)
>
> at
> org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Statement.executeUpdate(AbstractJdbc1Statement.java:183)
>
> at DbMutex.updateRow(DbMutex.java:70)
> at DbMutex.run(DbMutex.java:38)
>
> So I know I need to restart my transaction. What I don't know
> is how to portably interpret this particular SQLException instance as one
> that justifies a transaction restart, as opposed to the myriad other
> types of SQLExceptions I might get.
>
> So two questions:
>
> 1) How do I know this is an exception indicative of the need for a
> transaction restart in PostgreSQL?
> 2) How do I do this portably? (I.e. in a database neutral fashion).
>
> The Sun spec on SQLException talks about XOPEN SQLstate interpretation,
> I'm still looking for documentation on that puppy. It also talks
> about SQL99.
> At this point I'm unsure which applies to this exception for postgresql.
>
> I'm using PostgreSQL 7.3.3 and Java 1.4.2 on linux, though hopefully
> none of that
> makes a difference.
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>