Re: [Ruby-DBI-devel] DBI silently catching exceptions?

[James F.H. <jf...@ci...>]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:48:53 -0400
James F.Hranicky <jf...@ci...> wrote:

> Is DBI silently catching exceptions? 

I found it. DBD::Oracle was catching but not handling all but one execption
in DBI::DBD::Oracle::parse.

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*** Oracle.rb   Thu Aug 29 10:45:23 2002
--- Oracle.rb.mod       Thu Aug 29 10:45:17 2002
***************
*** 339,344 ****
--- 339,345 ----
        @handle.parse(statement)
      rescue OCIError => err
        retry if err.to_i == 3123  ## block
+       raise DBI::DatabaseError.new(err.message, err.to_i)
      end   
  
      colnr = 1
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HTH.

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