On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, at 3:34 PM, Vitaly Kruglikov wrote:
> My table has a unique index on the column named "tag". When I attempt to 
> insert a row with a tag value that already exists in the table, sqlalchemy 
> raises the generic exception `IntegrityError`.
> 
> `IntegrityError` may be raised for various scenarios, including Foreign Key 
> Violation and Unique Index Violation.
> 
> One of the benefits of using sqlalchemy is the ability to write code that may 
> be independent of the underlying backend or db-api driver. 

this is true for the most part!  unfortunately, not in this very specific part 
:(

> 
> So, I am hoping that there is a programmatic way to distinguish between the 
> underlying causes of IntegrityError (such as unique constraint violation) 
> without having to depend explicitly on a specific driver package (e.g., 
> psycopg2).

you have you set up a catch that will apply regular expressions to match the 
error conditions you want.  there's no platform agnostic registry maintained of 
these right now (it would be massive).




> 
> Thank you,
> Vitaly
> 

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