[erlang-questions] Failure semantics of dets:insert_new vs dets:insert

[Hans Bolinder]

[Alexei Sholik:]
> But the signature for insert_new is
>
>     insert_new(Name, Objects) -> boolean()
>
> In this case, false only indicates that a value for the key is already
> in the table. What about failure cases of insert()?

The type of the return value should include {error, Reason}. We'll
correct the docs in 17.3. Thanks for reporting.

Best regards,
Hans Bolinder, Erlang/OTP team, Ericsson

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