#! perl ## Sample exception handler ## For this example, we will fix unique violations on an email column use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my $info = shift; ## Do nothing unless this is the exact error we were designed to handle return if $info->{error_string} !~ /violates unique constraint "employee_email_key"/o; ## Grab all the primary keys involved in the sync my %pk; for my $dbname ( keys %{ $info->{deltabin} }) { for my $pkey (keys %{ $info->{deltabin}{$dbname} }) { $pk{$pkey}++; } } ## Very unlikely to happen, but we will check anyway: if (! keys %pk) { $info->{warning} = 'No database records found!'; return; } ## We need to get information from every database on each involved record my $SQL = sprintf 'SELECT id,email FROM employee WHERE id IN (%s)', (join ',' => sort keys %pk); ## Emails must be unique, so each must be associated with only one primary key (id) my %emailpk; ## This is in the preferred order of databases ## Thus, any "conflicts" means A > B > C for my $db (qw/ A B C /) { my $dbh = $info->{dbh}{$db}; my $sth = $dbh->prepare($SQL); $sth->execute(); my $rows = $sth->fetchall_arrayref(); for my $row (@$rows) { my ($id,$email) = @$row; ## This a new email? All is good, just move on if (! exists $emailpk{$email}) { $emailpk{$email} = [$id, $db]; next; } ## This email already exists. If the same PK, no problem my ($oldid,$olddb) = @{ $emailpk{$email} }; if ($oldid == $id) { next; } ## We have the same email with different PKs! Time to get busy $info->{message} .= "Found problem with email $email. "; $info->{message} .= "Exists as PK $oldid on db $olddb, but as PK $id on $db!"; ## Store it away in a separate table my $SQL = 'INSERT INTO employee_conflict SELECT * FROM employee WHERE id = ?'; $sth = $dbh->prepare($SQL); $sth->execute($id); ## Now delete it from this database! $SQL = 'DELETE FROM employee WHERE id = ?'; $sth = $dbh->prepare($SQL); $sth->execute($id); ## Note: we do not want to commit (and it is disallowed by DBIx::Safe) } } ## Let's retry now that things are cleaned up! $info->{retry} = 1; return;