Jeffrey Brendecke <yakhki@yahoo.de> writes: > Is there a recommended way to get the error severity (ERROR vs. FATAL vs. PANIC, etc.) off a PGconn* as there is for a PGresult* using PQresultErrorField()? > For example, when I pass in a non-existent database name when creating a connection, I get the following message: > FATAL: database "xxxxxx" does not exist What you're really wishing here is that errors generated within libpq itself had SQLSTATE and other decoration. They don't :-(. Improving this is on the to-do list, but someone is going to have to sit down and do several days/weeks of hard and mostly-boring work to make it happen. Do you want to volunteer? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly