Re: Possible feature?

Mike Mascari writes:

> MESSAGE ON INDEX i_employees IS
> 'An employee with a matching Social Security number already exists';
>
> Then, when the UNIQUE constraint of the index is violated, instead of
> the message:
>
> 'Cannot insert a duplicate key into a unique index i_test1'
>
> the client application would receive:
>
> 'An employee with a matching Social Security number already exists'

I think what you're after is

TRY BEGIN   INSERT ... END
CATCH SQLCODE 12345 -- made up BEGIN   RAISE 'your message here' END

I'm positive people would kill for that kind of feature.

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