[ic] Displaying SQL-Errors in the Administration Panel

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:49:42 -0400
Mike Heins <mike at perusion.com> wrote:

> Quoting Frank Zibell (frank.zibell at xi-quadrat.de):
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I need to prevent double product items. Items (for us) are equal if 
> > "description" and "category" are the same. So I defined an 
> > SQL-table-constraint respectively  composite key:
> > "alter table products add unique nodoubles (description, category);"
> > So from now on the database does not permit item entries, where
> > another entry with the same description and the same category
> > already exists. But when I add such a double entry in the
> > administration panel, there is no error message displayed. The
> > second item is just not created (because the DB says "no") - but no
> > hint for the user. And the autonumber increases! I thought there
> > might be a way to define that rule in database/mysql/products.mysql.
> > But I did not found that documented anywhere.
> 
> The autonumber will always increase if you are letting
> IC set it, because it has to display it. If you want to
> use AUTO_SEQUENCE, I believe the latest versions will 
> let the database autonumber it.

Yes, that works, even with 4.8 AFAIK.

> 
> 
> > Isn't it possible, that all SQL-Errors are displayed in the 
> > administration-panel? That's what I thougt should be the default! I
> > use IC v.4.9.7.
> > 
> 
> I believe you are right. I have been ignoring this issue for
> some time, but will be fixing it soon.
> 
> For the moment, you have to look at the global error.log file. Ugh.
> 

As long as there is no Internal Server Error, these messages can be
found in the catalog error log, but a feedback for the user is really
a good idea.

Bye
	Racke


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