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From: kelly@bellahs.UUCP (Kelly Kingdon)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix messages in ESQL/C
Summary: rgetmsg()
Message-ID: <602@bellahs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 91 15:07:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.171305.16997@vision.uucp>
Organization: Bell Atlantic Healthcare Systems Greenbrae Ca.
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In article <1991Mar13.171305.16997@vision.uucp>, chris@vision.uucp (Chris Davies) writes:
> WRT Informix databases, at least version 2, probably OnLine/version 4 too...
> 
> I have an application written with Informix's ESQL/C embedded SQL in C (not
> the 4GL product).  When an error occurs, the error number can be found from
> the sqlca structure (in sqlca.sqlcode).  What I would like to do is to be
> able to obtain the error text associated with that error number.
>
>	[ text deleted ]

	I don't know about earlier versions but in Informix On-line there is a
	function, rgetmsg() that does exactly what you are looking for.  It is
	in chap 5, library functions in the esql/c manual.


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