Chapter 4. Access Method Wrapup
Table of Contents
Retrieving and updating records in bulk
Partial record storage and retrieval
Storing C/C++ structures/objects
Retrieved key/data permanence for C/C++
Specifying a Berkeley DB schema using SQL DDL
Data alignment
The Berkeley DB access methods provide no guarantees about byte alignment for returned key/data pairs, or callback functions which take DBT references as arguments, and applications are responsible for arranging any necessary alignment. The DB_DBT_MALLOC, DB_DBT_REALLOC, and DB_DBT_USERMEM flags may be used to store returned items in memory of arbitrary alignment.