Help With WHENEVER clause

Salutations to all,

I’m in need of help with using the WHENEVER clause when handling errors. In the book, Oracle
Developer’s Guide, on page 229, it states DO RETURN is an action you can direct your program to
take in a WHENEVER clause. Well I tried that action and got the following:

                  EXEC SQL WHENEVER SQLERROR DO RETURN; 
                  
........................................................................
.............1
                  (1) PCC-S-02201, Encountered the symbol ";" when 

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from Pro*.C. Futhermore, the book states that parameters cannot be passed to or return from
functions that are referenced in a WHENEVER clause. Yet, half of the sample*.pc programs in $ORACLE_HOME/proc/demo/ are passing a string to the function referenced in a WHENEVER
clause. For example, sample2.pc includes the following:

               EXEC SQL WHENEVER SQLERROR DO sql_error("ORACLE error--");

Is the book in error? Or am I missing something here?

Oracle7 Server 7.2.2, Pro*C 2.1.2.0., and AIX 3.2 is the environment I’m programming in.

All responses are appreciated.

Thanks,

Al Holloway
alh_at_tiger.avana.net Received on Mon Apr 22 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST