On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:28:12PM +0530, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > $DBI::err - the error code of the last DBI method call.
> > > $DBI::errstr - the error message of the last DBI method call.
> > >
> > > NOTE: the values of these variables is guaranteed to be valid only
> > > after a method has failed.
> >
> > But if the DBI actually enforced that by, for example, never clearing
> > them and just updating them when an error occurred, it would break
> > a lot of code.
>
> Perhaps my wording was poor - I'm *not* suggesting DBI enforce it,
> merely let users know that DBI only enforces their correctnes *after*
> an error - in other words if the previous method didn't error, then
> the values of $DBI::{err,errstr} may be invalid, so don't check them.
Sure. My point was that that amounts to the same thing.
But DBI v2 will probably have some suitable compromise.
Tim.
