From ba100c98adf59baa695eb30e561e16ebe0fae4d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:22:48 +0000
Subject: clarify the behavior of the .first() and .last() methods for empty
 databases

this should be backported to the release23-maint branch
---
 Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
index bb1e6b0..a25d39b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ database.
 \begin{methoddesc}{first}{}
 Set the cursor to the first item in the DB file and return it.  The order of 
 keys in the file is unspecified, except in the case of B-Tree databases.
+This method raises \exception{bsddb.error} if the database is empty.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{next}{}
@@ -153,6 +154,7 @@ with \function{hashopen()}).
 Set the cursor to the last item in the DB file and return it.  The
 order of keys in the file is unspecified.  This is not supported on
 hashtable databases (those opened with \function{hashopen()}).
+This method raises \exception{bsddb.error} if the database is empty.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{sync}{}
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