Better error checking in update_record

diff --git a/lib/moodlelib.php b/lib/moodlelib.php
index a54d44370ce177910588392c0df0a5eacfa7937e..4fddc405f5dcece5729218b33bd788b2572726cb 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/moodlelib.php
+++ b/lib/moodlelib.php
@@ -687,7 +687,9 @@ function update_record($table, $dataobject) {
     }
 
     // Determine all the fields in the table
-    $columns = $db->MetaColumns($table);
+    if (!$columns = $db->MetaColumns($table)) {
+        return false;
+    }
     $data = (array)$dataobject;
 
     // Pull out data matching these fields