Bug #10143 Perror not showing error description
Submitted: 25 Apr 2005 12:50 Modified: 6 Mar 2010 18:27
Reporter: [ name withheld ] (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Errors Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.0, 4.1, 5.0 OS:Any (*)
Assigned to: Marc ALFF CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc, usability

[25 Apr 2005 12:50] [ name withheld ]
Description:
I got this error back from MySQL:

ERROR 1062 (23000): Duplicate entry '...' for key 1

Perror seems unable to describe this error.

How to repeat:
Try running:

C:\>perror 1062
Illegal error code: 1062

I also tried the following in doubt of which was the right number:

C:\>perror 23000
Illegal error code: 23000
[7 Apr 2006 21:37] Hartmut Holzgraefe
this is a general problem: perror does not know about the error codes >=1000
i find myself using grep ever so often to look them up, it's a real shame that 
perror is not able to help with this rather simple task ... :(
[25 Jan 2007 12:14] Hartmut Holzgraefe
see also bug 25177
[28 Feb 2007 23:33] Chad MILLER
I planned to put all error codes in extras/perror.c and have perror the program dump a stream of C++ "#define"s when given a certain parameter.

Execute it, redirecting to a file that the server uses.

Here's a patch that is 80% done, but needs some dependency problems worked out first.
[28 Feb 2007 23:34] Chad MILLER
Chad's first pass at a solution.  Needs a tiny amount of work.

Attachment: p (application/octet-stream, text), 14.78 KiB.

[30 Jun 2007 0:36] MySQL Verification Team
Still happens:

[miguel@light 5.0]$ bin/perror 1062
Illegal error code: 1062
[9 Oct 2007 16:41] Jeffrey Pugh
Other perror bugs:  bug #23028,#30003, #25177
[5 Aug 2008 23:26] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/50969

2745 Marc Alff	2008-08-05
      Bug#10143 (Perror not showing error description)
      
      Before this fix, errors described in sql/share/errmsg.txt were not
      displayed by the perror utility.
      
      With this fix, perror now is aware of these errors.
      
      Fixed the code generation for include/mysqld_ername.h to add the error
      message text.
      
      Fixed perror to lookup errors in include/mysqld_ername.h.
      
      Note that since the code is automatically generated,
      any new error created in sql/share/errmsg.txt (the source code)
      will be automatically recognized by perror, preventing the perror utility
      to get out of sync with the main source code.
[6 Aug 2008 12:57] Chad MILLER
Revno 2745 is good with me.  The capitalized "ER" in the function name may bother others, but I think it's okay.
[6 Aug 2008 22:16] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/51046

2748 Marc Alff	2008-08-06
      Bug#10143
      
      Fixed the test result for ndb_basic, which is using perror.
[6 Aug 2008 22:17] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/51047

2748 Marc Alff	2008-08-06
      Bug#10143
      
      Fixed the test result for ndb_basic, which is using perror.
[7 Aug 2008 18:38] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/51138

2744 Marc Alff	2008-08-07 [merge]
      Merge mysql-6.0-bugteam -> local bugfix branch
[11 Aug 2008 14:56] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/51322

2765 Davi Arnaut	2008-08-11 [merge]
      Merge mysql-6.0-bugteam into mysql-6.0 main.
[12 Aug 2008 14:19] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/51420

2765 Davi Arnaut	2008-08-12 [merge]
      Merge mysql-6.0-bugteam into mysql-6.0 main.
[12 Aug 2008 14:26] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/51423

2765 Davi Arnaut	2008-08-12 [merge]
      Merge mysql-6.0-bugteam into mysql-6.0 main.
[12 Aug 2008 14:36] Bugs System
Pushed into 6.0.7-alpha  (revid:marc.alff@sun.com-20080806221607-m7q3g7gm144z9smp) (version source revid:davi.arnaut@sun.com-20080812141852-8e6knbqclpfd8irn) (pib:3)
[12 Aug 2008 16:39] Paul DuBois
Noted in 6.0.7 changelog.

perror did not work for errors described in the sql/share/errmsg.txt
file.
[14 Aug 2008 7:32] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/51602

2684 He Zhenxing	2008-08-14 [merge]
      Merge 6.0 -> 6.0-rpl-testfixes
[14 Aug 2008 7:36] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/51603

2684 He Zhenxing	2008-08-14 [merge]
      Merge 6.0 -> 6.0-rpl-testfixes
[28 Aug 2008 20:14] Bugs System
Pushed into 6.0.7-alpha  (revid:cbell@mysql.com-20080822132131-uveo6wiuecy6m2b8) (version source revid:cbell@mysql.com-20080822132131-uveo6wiuecy6m2b8) (pib:3)
[14 Sep 2008 0:53] Bugs System
Pushed into 6.0.7-alpha  (revid:marc.alff@sun.com-20080806221607-m7q3g7gm144z9smp) (version source revid:vvaintroub@mysql.com-20080804094710-jb2qpqxpf2ir2gf3) (pib:3)
[24 Feb 2010 0:50] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/101268

2982 Marc Alff	2010-02-23
      Bug#10143 Perror not showing error description
      
      Backport to 5.5.99
[24 Feb 2010 0:54] Marc ALFF
Backport for 5.5.99 queued in mysql-next-mr-bugfixing
[25 Feb 2010 19:46] Bugs System
Pushed into 6.0.14-alpha (revid:alik@sun.com-20100225194420-p60r4u90tszj8q2x) (version source revid:wlad@sun.com-20100224014249-ztsx39z7p85vr0pe) (merge vers: 6.0.14-alpha) (pib:16)
[25 Feb 2010 19:48] Bugs System
Pushed into mysql-next-mr (revid:alik@sun.com-20100225194305-h49uyjrlfl3mwo60) (version source revid:wlad@sun.com-20100224012055-l03398ur9fid1bry) (pib:16)
[25 Feb 2010 19:49] Paul DuBois
Setting report to Need Merge pending push of Celosia to release tree.
[6 Mar 2010 11:00] Bugs System
Pushed into 5.5.3-m3 (revid:alik@sun.com-20100306103849-hha31z2enhh7jwt3) (version source revid:alik@sun.com-20100225195857-farb6yvy8x06bylj) (merge vers: 5.5.99-m3) (pib:16)
[6 Mar 2010 18:27] Paul DuBois
Noted in 5.5.3 changelog.