[DanWaterworth]

Interesting that you're quoting the zen of python, but using ruby. I wonder if the python mongo client would have the same behaviour.

There seems to be a number of people commenting, telling you to read the documentation, but I'm with you, that is completely counter-intuitive behaviour and should be viewed as a bug.

[agscala]

This has nothing to do with the client library, so it would not matter which language you use to interface with MongoDB.

[DanWaterworth]

As I understand it, it has everything to do with the client library, some clients may call getLastError on every operation and raise errors when they occur, for example.

[omni]

PyMongo, for instance, can do this for most operations by passing safe=True.

[agscala]

Oh, I thought the original article was saying that MongoDB itself would not send an error down if it was "full".