Trying to answer a few emails in this thread at once ;-)
On Oct 5, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Gentry, Michael wrote:
> I could see an option for putting it in the model for the purpose of
> schema creation
That's the only thing I had in mind when proposing to open a ticket in
JIRA. I definitely have no intentions to force Cayenne doing the DB
work.
On Oct 5, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Cris Daniluk wrote (also mentioned by
Stefaan Huysentruyt)
> Why not let the database do it and simply have the db adapters better
> equipped to handle the unique constraint exception? Oracle, PG, MySQL
> all have a unique constraint and all throw a consistent (though
> different)
> exception.
That's an interesting idea, however this is also lots of maintenance
burden to keep an internal mapping of all possible DB error codes and
track possible changes between releases of both DB and JDBC driver. So
it will be hard to achieve consistency here...
Andrus
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