Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes: > I can work around this by checking for a NULL pointer returned from > notmuch_query_search_threads () and re-open the database > (notmuch_database_close () -> notmuch_database_open ()). But I have no > way of knowing programatically if this really is the error that has > happened. There should be some way of propagating the error > information or (even better for my case; for notmuch to reopen the > database), one option is the Gmime way of passing an pointer to an > error structure that is filled up by the notmuch interface function. Hi Gaute; Sorry this sequence of postings of yours kindof fell down a well. In general there seems to be not very much enthusiasm for the GError solution. We can do something less fancy with the series at id:1419788030-10567-2-git-send-email-david@tethera.net In particular id:1419788030-10567-6-git-send-email-david@tethera.net replaces the printfs with saving to a status string accessible from notmuch_database_t. I _think_ this could solve your problem, although doing strcmp on error message might not be ideal. Overall this is much less api breakage (only open and create need to be wrapped). We could also consider really updating the api for those NULL returning functions, but it seems less bad to me than the count functions updated in this series id:1419971380-10307-2-git-send-email-david@tethera.net Let me know what you think, David