On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 21:35 +0000, Haszlakiewicz, Eric wrote: > I'm trying to get some additional information back from a trigger to my embedded SQL > program, to essentially emulate Informix's way of generating serial values. > I can get the serial to be generated, but I'm trying to figure out how to get the > generated value back to my program with minimal changes to the SQL. Have you already looked at INSERT...RETURNING? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-insert.html > I can't figure out how to retrieve the message raised by the trigger. I know it's > available in some cases, because I see the message when I insert a row through psql, > but even things like this: > printf("%s\n", PQerrorMessage(ECPGget_PGconn(mydb))); > > return nothing useful. Is there a way to get this information? Yes, these messages are delivered via notice processing (not to be confused with LISTEN/NOTIFY): http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/libpq-notice-processing.html Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
