On Aug 11, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Jim Starkey wrote:
> You may be more interested in why something failed than just that it failed. > > An error mechanism should play nicely with the status vector to expose as > much -- or as little as the user needs. Sometimes an error code is enough, > sometimes a full formatted compound message is required. > > But a second call to pick up the "last" error would probably make almost > every one happy. Exactly. In fact I had this type of "Explain Last Error" call implemented "somewhere", but I haven't been able to locate it. If and when I do I'll know which database I used it on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel