SIGNAL
Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The standard SQL way to raise exceptions is via the SIGNAL statement, which is supported natively in a few dialects, and can be emulated in some others.
Some example SIGNAL invocations.
begin(signalSQLState("45000")).execute();
begin(signalSQLState("45000").setMessageText("Custom message")).execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
signalSQLState("45000").setMessageText("Custom message")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
DB2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MySQL
SIGNAL SQLSTATE '45000' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Custom message'
Hana
SIGNAL SQL_ERROR_CODE '45000' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Custom message'
Postgres, YugabyteDB
RAISE SQLSTATE '45000' USING MESSAGE = 'Custom message'
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, Informix, MemSQL, Oracle, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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