I was recently debugging a stored procedure and could not easily identify the underlying reason for why it was failing.

It had a standard exit handler catch-all for SQLEXCEPTION, which was:

DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR SQLEXCEPTION
BEGIN
SELECT ...;
END;

When there was an error, it didn't really output anything useful.

As of MySQL 5.5, there is RESIGNAL:

"RESIGNAL passes on the error condition information that is available during execution of a condition handler within a compound statement inside a stored procedure or function, trigger, or event."

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I was recently debugging a stored procedure and could not easily identify the underlying reason for why it was failing.

It had a standard exit handler catch-all for SQLEXCEPTION, which was:

DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR SQLEXCEPTION
BEGIN
SELECT ...;
END;

When there was an error, it didn’t really output anything useful.

As of MySQL 5.5, there is RESIGNAL:

“RESIGNAL passes on the error condition information that is available during execution of a condition handler within a compound statement inside a stored procedure or function, trigger, or event.”

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/resignal.html

There is also some good information about it here as well:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/resignal/

It is very simple to use, …