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From: barrym@informix.com (Barry Mednick)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix messages in ESQL/C
Summary: can do
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.195331.13206@informix.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 19:53:31 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.171305.16997@vision.uucp>
Sender: Barry Mednick
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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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.
>
>Alas, there doesn't seem to be any way of doing this, and it does seem rather
>antiquated to tell the user "look the error number up in the book...".
>
See the function rgetmsg(), as defined in Chapter 5 of the ESQL/C 4.00
manual.  It does exactly what you described.