Re: Berkeley DB

["Robert R. Wal" <rrw@...>]

On 03.09.19 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo pressed the following keys:

> >the berkeley db interface is "huge" compared to gdbm  :)
> 
> I was looking at db.h in my RH 5.2, which lists dbopen and then the
> following methods:
> 
> 	 int (*close)    __P((struct __db *));
> 	 int (*del)      __P((const struct __db *, const DBT *, u_int));
> 	 int (*get)      __P((const struct __db *, const DBT *, DBT *, u_int));
> 	 int (*put)      __P((const struct __db *, DBT *, const DBT *, u_int));
> 	 int (*seq)      __P((const struct __db *, DBT *, DBT *, u_int));
> 	 int (*sync)     __P((const struct __db *, u_int));
> 	 int (*fd)       __P((const struct __db *));
> 
> I think this is BDB 1.x. I've looked at newer RHs and indeed there are several
> other methods in newer versions...

This interface is the old ``compatibility'' interface sometimes called
db_185. Every version of Berkeley DB provides this interface one way or
another. And most programmers use even the newest (in case of my debian
db-4.1) version of the library via this interface.

Robert

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