Re: [libdbi-devel] API suggestions

[Rainer G. <rge...@hq...>]

> - Error handling is very inconsistent. Especially the functions that
>   return 1 (one) on success are *very* uncommon. I'd change 
> that so that
>   *all* functions (that return a status message) return 0 (zero) on
>   success and less than zero upon failure.

While it is good to have consistent error handling, this one breaks all
exitisting applications. Even worse, code would begin to fail by a
simple upgrade of the library. Thus I conclude this is a no-go.

The alternative may be to do a new call right at init, let's say
SetConsistentErrors(ON),which would modify the errors returned. So new
apps could call this and use the consistent error codes. That would
work.

Rainer