Help ?!?!?

Using DBI I call a PL/SQL package and hand it some variables. This package does some validation of the data, when the package is not happy with the data an SQL error is raised.

What I want to do is instead of having DBI die, I want to see the error in a variable so I can process this and send back an error to the user.

The variables are handed in via a webpage and errors should be returned on that page (thus the dislike of a die)

I have seen some solutions to this, but these usualy use a eval{} to solve the problem. Due to the application framework that I'm forced to work in this will not work as a die is always caught before my code can get to it.

So what I wat is a way to find the errors returned without death.

The ways I have atempted to get these errors from the DBI are:
- my $error = $dbh->errstr;
- my $error = $@

The problem is that both are always undefined no matter how may errors the package returns. So my question is how do I find the errors without having the DBI calling die

This is my config:
- Perl v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris
- DBI DBI version 1.34
- Oracle DBD complited with Oracle 8.1.7 client

In reply to DBI - PL/SQL error catching by Anonymous Monk

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