>>> I think you're overly optimistic to believe that every failure will
>>> have a SQLSTATE; I don't think that's true for libpq-reported errors,
>>> such as connection loss.
>
>> Yep, I thought I was optimistic:-) Can I add a special SQLSTATE for that
>> situation where libpq did not report an error?
>
> Meh. If we're going to do that I think it might be better to hack
> libpq itself to do so, ie, force PQresultErrorField(..., PG_DIAG_SQLSTATE)
> to always return something. But it seems like a hack either way.
I would not have took the liberty to hack into libpq internals for such a
small front-end feature. However I agree that having libpq always return
some diagnostic, even if it means "something unclear happened, sorry not
to be very precise", would be better.
--
Fabien.
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