sqlite3, OperationalError: no such column, shouldn't that ne a ProgrammingError?

[Gerhard Häring]

John Machin wrote:
> Hi Gerhard,
> [...]
> In http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/prepare.html it says """When an error
> occurs, sqlite3_step() will return one of the detailed error codes or
> extended error codes. The legacy behavior was that sqlite3_step()
> would only return a generic SQLITE_ERROR result code and you would
> have to make a second call to sqlite3_reset() in order to find the
> underlying cause of the problem. With the "v2" prepare interfaces, the
> underlying reason for the error is returned immediately."""
> 
> Are you using sqlite3_prepare() or sqlite3_prepare_v2()?
> sqlite3_errcode() or sqlite3_extended_errcode()?

Because of compatibility with older SQLite versions, I'm using the old
API only.

I'll change this one day and then I'll be able to throw a lot of
compatibility code out of the window, too.

But I certainly won't go #ifdef hell and implement both.

-- Gerhard