Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > Jean T. Anderson wrote: ... >>But I'll point out two differences between the 10.1 and 10.2 docs: >> >>1) 10.2 severity column. I bet there's a story why that column didn't >>make it into 10.1, but I sure don't remember. Anyone should feel free to >>provide that info. If people don't like it for whatever reason, I can >>easily remove it. > > The severity by definition (SQLException.getErrorCode) is a non-standard > piece of Derby. I prefer not to document these values since it might > encourage JDBC applications to depend on them, thus making it hard to > migrate applications from Derby. (Ie. leads to Derby lock-in). JDBC 4 > addresses some of the requirements here by having specific classes of > SQLException that applications can use, we should be encouraging their > use instead of non-standard items.
thanks -- this makes an excellent reason for removing that severity column and I'll do so. -jean
