Chapter 5. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.4 applications to Berkeley DB 4.5

Table of Contents

Introduction

deprecated interfaces

DB->set_isalive

DB_ENV->rep_elect

Replication method naming

Replication events

Memory Pool API

DB_ENV->set_paniccall

DB->set_pagesize

Collections API

--enable-pthread_self

Recno backing text source files

Application-specific logging

Upgrade Requirements

Berkeley DB 4.5.20 Change Log

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes:

New Features:

Database Environment Changes:

Concurrent Data Store Changes:

General Access Method Changes:

Btree Access Method Changes:

Hash Access Method Changes:

Queue Access Method Changes:

Recno Access Method Changes:

C++-specific API Changes:

Java-specific API Changes:

Java collections and bind API Changes:

Tcl-specific API Changes:

RPC-specific Client/Server Changes:

Replication Changes:

XA Resource Manager Changes:

Locking Subsystem Changes:

Logging Subsystem Changes:

Memory Pool Subsystem Changes:

Transaction Subsystem Changes:

Utility Changes:

Configuration, Documentation, Portability and Build Changes:

Introduction

The following pages describe how to upgrade applications coded against the Berkeley DB 4.4 release interfaces to the Berkeley DB 4.5 release interfaces. This information does not describe how to upgrade Berkeley DB 1.85 release applications.